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asked the Minister for Education if he is aware that the parents and pupils of a school (details supplied) are perturbed at the planned closing of the school's senior cycle which is to commence this September and if he will take immediate steps to ensure the continuation of the senior cycle.
197.
asked the Minister for Education if he will meet as a matter of urgency a deputation of parents and pupils from a school (details supplied) to discuss the planned phasing out of the senior cycle to begin this September.
198.
asked the Minister for Education if it is his policy to give parents of teenage girls in Ballyfermot, Dublin a choice of senior cycle education and, if so, the steps being taken to ensure such choice
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 196, 197 and 198 together.
Since 1966 the Dublin Advisory Council in Post-Primary Education have been considering the educational requirements of Ballyfermot. All school authorities, including the two convent schools and representatives of the parents living in the area were regularly consulted as to future development. In April 1975 it was finally agreed by all parties that the senior cycle school for 500 boys and girls would be built, that it would be operated by a board of management under the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, and that the two convent schools would discontinue their senior classes and participate in the management of the new senior school.
