Around 20 students and parents who have been left without a school bus place walked from Ballivor to school in Trim.
It comes after the Government made the service free of charge, which resulted in an increase in registrations.However, parents in Ballivor this morning questioned why their children still have no place."My eldest is in Transition Year this year and my youngest is in Junior Cert. We got concessionary tickets in previous years and this year, we got no tickets," she said.
Lillian Lee has a son and daughter attending secondary school in Trim. They both had concessionary passes before this year."I always understood about concessionary tickets but this year, in my view, the minister announcing free transport for all students overrides concessionary tickets," she said.In a statement, the Department of Education said that to date more than 126,000 tickets have been issued to children travelling on mainstream School Transport Scheme services.
This country is just a joke. Give it to grown ups to run. Please.
Concessionary pupils, not attending their nearest school , the rules of the school transport scheme are really clear , so these people have no valid grevience.
But plenty of cycle lanes for urban places like Dun Laoighaoire. Rural Ireland abandoned by this government.
CO. MEATH, HELEN MCENTEE, will she be getting another vote,
Another government failure on behalf of the majority of rural communities in 🇮🇪
Fix the health service? Homelessness? Cost of living crises? Dream on. We can't even organise a bus to take kids to school.
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