Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Education and Skills

Children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from, and are attending, their nearest Gaelscoil.

In general, transport services are not established in areas where public scheduled bus services already exist. In such cases children who are eligible for school transport are facilitated with travel permits for public scheduled
services.

Families of children who are eligible for school transport and for whom no service is available, may be offered the Remote Area Grant towards the cost of private transport arrangements.

Where my Department is satisfied that a particular Gaelscoil does not have capacity to enrol additional children, then these children may have their transport eligibility considered by reference to the distance they reside from their next nearest Gaelscoil.