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‹ An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

School transport to Cross and Passion College

Summary

Senator Wall raises changes to school transport rules that would leave 32 children in the Ballysax-Curragh area without a bus to Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen. The Chair manages the clock as he insists the plan is unacceptable, notes local frustration, and the exchange ends with a brief comment about losing in injury time.

Jerry Buttimer An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

Yes, according to the clock.

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Níl sé. Tá dha nóimead agam. Go raibh maith agat.

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Jerry Buttimer An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

I do not manage the clock. Lean ar aghaidh.

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Gabh mo leithscéal. The Minister indicated there will be some school transport changes that particularly relate to the area of 4.5 km. There are 32 young children attending the Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen. They who live in the Ballysax-Curragh area. They have been told they will not get bus transport to that school in September. This is simply unacceptable. They are being told they should attend the new school on the Curragh but as we know that new school is being developed in Kildare town, which will be further away than the Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen. We need Bus Éireann, through the Minister, to agree a pathway for these people to allow for more than the 4.5 km limit and for their second choice school, which in this case is the Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen. I ask that the Minister come to the House because that is not the only case I have on school transport. She needs to sit down and we need to see a new protocol for school transport to allow those children, and many more, to get the public transport they badly need.

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Jerry Buttimer An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

Again, apologies regarding the clock but I do not control it.

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That is no problem.

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Jerry Buttimer An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

The Senator is in injury time.

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I am used to being in injury time.

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Jerry Buttimer An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

I hope it did not cost him like it cost Kildare last night.

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Unfortunately, we lost during injury time last night.

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