School Accommodation.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 June 2005

Wednesday, 22 June 2005

Questions (285)

Trevor Sargent

Question:

269 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science the further works which have been undertaken by her Department with a view to providing the long overdue secondary school on the Donabate-Portrane peninsula, County Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community in voicing a consensus regarding the CDVEC as the patron body, has a free site and has a large demand to places in such a new school; when this community will have local secondary by way of a school education available. [21555/05]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Science (Ms Hanafin)

Officials in the school planning section of my Department are carrying out a review of educational needs in the north Dublin-east Meath-south Louth area, including Donabate and Portrane, by way of a draft area development plan. The need for a post-primary school in Donabate is being considered in this context. The draft plan is nearing completion and I hope to be in a position to publish it shortly. Following this, a public consultation process will be conducted by the Commission on School Accommodation. The process will culminate in a final area development plan, which will provide a blueprint for educational infrastructure in the area for the next decade, including the need or otherwise to provide a post-primary school in Donabate.