asked the Minister for Education when it is intended to extend the model school in Monaghan town; and if he is aware that, owing to the closing of small schools in the adjacent rural areas, this school is totally inadequate to cater for the number of children attending it.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Monaghan Schools.
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Mr. O'Malley
The Commissioners of Public Works have been asked to arrange, as a matter of urgency, to have a suitable scheme of decoration and improvement carried out in the case of the four classrooms, which are required for immediate use in the model school.
The Commissioners have also been asked to furnish a report on the question of providing the additional accommodation which will eventually be required to cater for the pupils from the outlying schools who will ultimately be accommodated in the model school.
Would the Minister not take this as a reflection on the Minister responsible for closing the outlying schools?
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asked the Minister for Education when he expects work will start on the extension of the technical school at Castleblaney, County Monaghan.
Mr. O'Malley
The planning of the extension to Castleblaney vocational school has not yet been completed and it is not possible to say when the building work will start.
The committee has been authorised to provide two prefabricated classrooms urgently so as to relieve the immediate accommodation difficulties.