School Transport Scheme

1. To be eligible for transport under this scheme a pupil must:

• Be enrolled for an approved course in a recognised post-primary school.
  

• Be not less than 12 years of age on or before 1 January of the school year in which the pupil enters second level education.
  

• Have completed sixth standard in a national school or its equivalent.
  

• Live 3 miles or more from his/her appropriate post-primary education centre. The shortest walking route measures this distance.

2. Eligible pupils may be transported to the post-primary centre, which caters for the catchment area in which thy live. (Pupils availing themselves of such facilities are referred to as “Fully Eligible Pupils”).

3. Where eligible pupils attend school at a centre other than the post-primary centre, which caters for the catchment area in which they live, they may be allowed the concession of transport from the catchment boundary of the centre attended provided there is room for them on a bus serving that centre.

4. They are, themselves, responsible for getting to the catchment boundary. (Basically eligible pupils availing themselves of such facilities are referred to as “Catchment Boundary Pupils”).

5. Eligible pupils may avail themselves of school transport under this scheme only on payment of the appropriate term contribution. Where the parents or legal guardians of eligible pupils are medical cardholders, they may be excused the contribution in respect of such children.

6. No special school bus service may be established unless there is a minimum of 7 eligible pupils within an area, which can be reasonable and economically served by a bus route.

7. Special school transport services are organised as a network of main routes serving each catchment area. Pupils living off a main route are expected to get, or e brought, to a convenient pick-up-point on the main route, Spurs off the main route will not be operated for such pupils. As a rule, the routes will be planned so that no pupil will have more than 2 miles to travel to a pick-up- point.

8. The granting of facilities under thee terms of this scheme will be at the discretion off the Minister for Education.

9. The fact that pupils have held transport facilities contrary to the terms of the scheme in no way confers on the recipients a continuing right to the facilities.

For more information, contact

Co Cavan VEC Head Office

049 - 4331044