Bus Éireann expects all families to have tickets by end of next week

Bus Éireann expects every family who paid their children’s school bus fares should have their tickets by the end of next week.

The company has sent out around 3,500 tickets during the week as it tries to catch up with a backlog caused largely by problems with a new centralised online system for processing and issuing tickets.

An estimated 116,000 children will travel on the school transport system this year, but the payment deadline was extended by a week to August 1 when the upgraded online registration and payment system used by 70% of families ran into technical difficulties.