My Department has not, to date, received any formal submission from parents in relation to the provision of a Gaelcholáiste for county Kildare. The Department's current five-year construction plan is focused on meeting demographic demands to ensure that every child will have access to a physical school place and that our school system is in a position to accommodate increasing pupil numbers. Therefore, the establishment of any new school is considered in the context of the overall need for additional school places to meet future demographic demands and is advanced in line with an objective process and criteria for determining patronage and language medium of instruction. As the Deputy will be aware a new post-primary school will open in county Kildare this coming September. This school will have an all-Irish Aonad. My Department has confirmed that if sufficient demand for education through the medium of Irish in the Aonad is demonstrated over a four-year cycle, the establishment of an independent Gaelchóláiste will be considered.