School Transport
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-13
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

We all recognise that movement is needed here. I do not for a moment underestimate the impact these escorts have in allowing children to access education, as is their constitutional right, where they present with that level of need. Will the Minister confirm what I think I heard her say, which is that the school transport review is now complete? I am talking about the school transport review that has been going on since 2021. On what date will she bringing that review to the sub-committee? If it includes reference to school escorts, a significant number of people will be paying very close attention to it from the perspective of their own employment. We are asking this group of individuals, school escorts, to sign onto the dole for 69 days of the year. We are creating very similar circumstances to those school secretaries and caretakers faced. School escorts should really have been included in the movement on those other two groups.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-13