No hike in school transport fees for next academic year [tribune.ie]
- Published: 20 June 2010
Tens of thousands of hard-pressed families have been granted a temporary reprieve after the government confirmed that it will not raise school transport fees to €500 per pupil in the coming academic year.
However, a department of education spokesman refused to rule out introducing the new charge – which was recommended in the 'An Bord Snip Nua' report – in subsequent years.
In the region of 125,000 pupils around the country avail of school transport daily. But the number of secondary students using school transport actually fell by around 10,000 last year, after a previous hike in charges prompted their hard-pressed parents to source alternative methods of transport.
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