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School Accommodation

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 April 2022

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Questions (915)

Colm Burke

Question:

915. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education if consideration will be given to an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation due to the increased places within the school having moved from a single sex school to a coeducational school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20508/22]

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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has recently received an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question.

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.

Officials in my Department are engaging with the school authority regarding this application  When the assessment process has been finalised, the school authorities will be notified directly.

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