Letters to the Editor: There must be a better way to provide school bus tickets

A parent whose child was refused a ticket this year proposes reforms of Ireland's school bus scheme

Letter writer Anna Iskra proposes giving all primary school children school bus tickets, and giving secondary students  tickets for the public bus system. File picture: BusEireann.ie

Ireland is a booming country. It is a small country, relatively young in its independence, and still learning how to deal with expansions and growth. Like a young, talented adult who grows up surrounded by old grandmas and grandpas on the farm, suddenly it is thrown into a big world of LiveScience, medicine, software, technology, and modern progress. The world is changing fast for Ireland.

Unfortunately, being small with old roots in farming, many administrative procedures suffer from a lack of flexibility, adaptability, and functionality.