Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 March 2022
427. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Education the status of the approval for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied); the recent communication that has taken place with the school on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16300/22]
View answerI can confirm to the Deputy, that my Department recently approved additional accommodation for the school in question, under my Department's Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA). The school authorities have been notified directly of this approval.
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 Allocations 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.
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 Allocations 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.
