This issue has been on the agenda for a long time in the Curragh. It is only recently that a proposal in regard to an alternative site has been mooted by the Department of Education and Science. The school's board of management and staff identified a site for which a narrow strip of land on the road leading to the site, not on the side of the Curragh plains, was required from the Department of Defence. I cannot understand how this strip of land, which does not form part of the Curragh plains itself, could not have been given to the school to facilitate the construction of another gaelscoil in the area. The current gaelscoil serves a wide area of mid County Kildare. The strip of land in question is only five yards wide. The Minister for Education and Science saw the site and did not seem to foresee any problems with it.