A group of children at the centre of a Limerick school bus row today hired a private vehicle to protest outside the Dáil.
The schoolchildren have been without a bus service to a secondary school in Pallaskenry for the past month.
Parent Noreen Cusack, whose 12-year-old daughter is one of the 34 children affected, said the campaign was going to continue.
"It's our children's rights that are at stake. There's a terrible wrong being done to them," she said.
The Department of Education has said the pupils will not be given school bus transport to the school in Pallaskenry because there were enough school places for them in their catchment area of Limerick City.
But Ms Cusack said she and other parents had evidence to show this was not a consistent policy.
"There are children outside the Limerick city catchment area and they're getting tickets as well. I wouldn't condemn any child getting a ticket. But we're being discriminated against."
The children, who are from the Ballybrown and Clarina areas in Limerick, are making the 15km journey to the Salesian College in Pallaskenry each day using car pools.
They have gathered 10,000 signatures in support of their cause and have enlisted local Limerick TD, Defence Minister Willie O'Dea, who has expressed frustration at the inaction of his Fianna Fáil colleague, Minister of State for Youth and Transport Síle DeValera TD.
The Department of Education said children from the Limerick City catchment area had transported to Pallaskenry in the past because of a lack of school places in the city.
"It was made clear at the time, and particularly again since the beginning of this year, to all local interests, that this special arrangement would be subject to re-examination," said a spokeswoman.
She said the Central Applications facility introduced by former Education Minister Noel Dempsey had shown there were enough school places for pupils in Limerick.
"In the circumstances, it was decided to discontinue the practice of offering a special service to new catchment boundary pupils travelling to Pallaskenry and Askeaton."