Call for new approach to school transport

THE Government must end its piecemeal approach to school transport and make it the responsibility of a single department, parents have warned.

The call for a fresh approach to school bus safety and transport came on the eve of the first anniversary of the Navan school bus crash in which five teenage girls were killed.

The National Parents Council Primary (NPC-P), also believes drivers should be banned from overtaking school buses which stop to let children on or off, with penalty points as an optional sanction for breaking such a rule.