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THE National Parents Council has called for a boycott at the start of the new school year of all school buses where children are forced to sit three to a two-person seat or where seat belts are not fitted.

It comes following Monday’s tragic school bus crash in Navan, Co Meath, in which five girls were killed.

“We have people in this country avoiding tax by revamping yachts and we cannot revamp our school buses,” said council spokeswoman Eleanor Petrie. “We have been waiting for an accident like this to happen and sadly now it has.”