Dept of Public Expenditure and Dept of Education in talks over school bus scheme

Talks between the Department of Public Expenditure and the Department of Education are ongoing over whether the school bus scheme will continue to include certain children after Minister John Halligan said he would fight for more funding to ease the problem.

Mr Halligan, the Minister of State for Training and Skills, said: "If I had my way all children, eligible or otherwise, should get school transport."