Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 March 2012
137 Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide exact locations for the schools numbered 12, 13, 14 and 19 in the five-year programme of projects to go to construction in 2015/2016; the number of classrooms that will be in each of the schools; the number of pupils it is intended each school will cater for; who will run each of the schools and if they will be mixed or gender-based schools. [15308/12]
View answerMy Department has sought the assistance of, and is working closely with, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in relation to identifying and acquiring suitable sites for the provision of permanent accommodation for the schools to be provided in the area referred to by the Deputy. It is intended that the schools concerned will subject to demographic and parental demand cater for one or two junior infant class intake.
As I announced on the 6th March last regarding my decisions on the patronage for new primary schools to be established in 2012 and 2013, the two schools in Stepaside will be under the Patronage of Educate Together and An Foras Pátrúnachta respectively and the primary school in Ballinteer will be under the Patronage of Educate Together. All schools will be established on a mixed gender basis. The reference to the second new Primary school in the Ballinteer Dublin South area should refer instead to a new Post Primary school, the provision of which is subject to further demographic review in that general area.
