Concerns raised over new charge for 'free' school bus [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 June 2011
THERE are concerns that pupils of small rural schools such as Harestown, Tullydonnell and Termonfeckin Primary Schools will face a winter of hardship and uncertainly if the proposed changes under the School Transport Scheme comes into effect from this September.
Concerns have been raised by parents Harestown and local Sinn Fein Cllrs Imelda Munster and Pearse McGeough met with the school principal regarding the threatened changes which will see a €50 charge for the previously free bus service apply to each pupil.
' The changes to the scheme are set to cause undue hardship and uncertainty to many families attending rural schools such as Harestown who are reliant on the school bus service which has been in place for decades now and has always been a free service for primary school children,' Sinn Fein Cllr for the area Imelda Munster told the Drogheda Independent.
'What we are seeing here is the current government making cuts through the Department of Education by failing to adequately fund the rural school bus service.'
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