That's according to Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin
At least 41 children in North Kildare are currently without a school bus place, according to a Kildare North TD.
Sinn Féin Deputy Réada Cronin says this figure shows that the "school-transport policy and criteria need urgent review."
She told the Dáil that the current process of ticket allocation is out of touch with modern living and education, with students forced to travel further from home, when local schools are full.
She accused the government of being indifferent to the difficulties North Kildare families are facing, when there is no bus place for their child, and how mothers, especially, were bearing the brunt of that indifference in their work and careers.
She said: “I am constantly onto the Minister about children from Rathcoffey and Straffan trying to get to get to Celbridge or Maynooth. I am constantly telling her, the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and Minister Eamon Ryan, about the difficulties these families are facing every day.”
“It beggars belief that in 2023, some mothers are facing the prospect of giving up work completely, or where they have battled to top management positions, are now looking at having to go part time. The lack of a bus place for a child in North Kildare has become an equality issue for their mother.”
In relation to a possible solution, she said “There’s a 58 seater and 16 seater bus on the problematic route. Make it two 58 seaters and the 41 children can be looked after. This must be done and it could be done if it were the government’s priority. On the evidence it is not.”
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