asked the Minister for Education if, in view of the fact that Limerick City Vocational Education Committee are renting classrooms at the Crescent College at £100 a week, he will consider purchasing this building to meet the educational requirements of the area.
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The classes in question will move to the new Limerick City Technical Institute when it comes into operation in September, 1974.
Does that mean that the Department of Education are now taking over Crescent College and handing it over to us in the vocational education committee?
No.
What does it mean?
What I have said is that the classes—these are the ones the Deputy is referring to as being at present accommodated in Crescent College—will move to the new Limerick City Technical Institute when it comes into operation in September, 1974.
That is not the answer to my question. We have got a lease of this college for 12 months at £100 a week from the Jesuits. When that 12 months is up, what does the Minister propose to do with the Crescent College in Limerick? Is he going to move in?
Crescent College does not belong to the Minister.
I am well aware of the fact that the Minister's Department and his predecessor put to the benefit of this society a comprehensive school in Limerick. They have now come along and are claiming the right to sell, lease or let the premises known as Crescent College. I want to know what the Minister will do to prevent that?
My concern is to ensure that the young people of Limerick receive a worthwhile education and that is what I am doing and it is very obvious to everybody in Limerick that that is what I am doing.
I will raise that again in its own time.