Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 September 2004
456 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science his strategy in relation to a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the very successful access programmes that have been developed by this school assisting pupils with educational disadvantage to progress to third level and the significant loss that the closure of the school will impose on the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21970/04]
View answerA decision has been taken by the trustees of Greendale Community School that the school will close in June 2007. Given the pattern of falling enrolments at the school, together with surplus capacity in the general area, my Department concurs with the trustees' decision. My Department's main role in a school closure is to ensure that the best interests of the pupils are looked after in the period up to the closure and that alternative provision is available to accommodate the pupils who would have ordinarily attended Greendale Community School.
