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School Enrolments

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 September 2021

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Questions (131)

Cathal Crowe

Question:

131. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if the current and projected enrolment at a school (details supplied) will be urgently examined; and the way that accommodation can be suitably provided to meet the needs of the school. [45579/21]

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Written answers

I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question.

Officials from my Department have corresponded with the school authority and on receipt of their response the application will be progressed and the decision will issue to the school authority directly.

The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.

At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section, or a new SEN class has been sanctioned by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.

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