asked the Minister for Education in view of the serious outbreak of scabies amongst the pupils at Keelogs, Inver, County Donegal, the steps she intends to take in providing alternative accommodation, pending the provision of a new school.
232.
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205.
asked the Minister for Education the present position regarding the proposed new school at Keelogs, County Donegal; the present stage of planning of the accommodation being provided; if her attention has been drawn to the serious health problem (details supplied) in the school; and when work will commence on the project.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 232 together.
The position with regard to the proposed new national school for Keelogs, County Donegal, remains as set out in the reply which I gave on 24 November, 1987 to the question from Deputy De Rossa about this school.
With regard to the health problem referred to by the Deputies, while this matter is one for consideration and action by the school's board of management in the first instance, I have asked my Department's officers to make contact with the chairman of the board with a view to establishing whether in this context grant assistance for improvements to the existing facilities may be called for, pending the provision of new permanent accommodation. If that should be the case, the recommendations will be sympathetically considered.