New school bus places ‘will not solve ticket scramble’

Labour Party TD Sean Sherlock. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

An Opposition TD has warned that changes to the school transport system that will see fewer than 70 extra places allocated in each county on average will not address the “annual scramble” for concessionary bus tickets. 

The Department of Education has announced that it will accommodate an additional 1,800 post-primary pupils who otherwise would not have had a place this September.