Vol. 444 No. 1
160 Mr. Noonan (Limerick East) asked the Minister for Education if she has received correspondence from the management of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that her announcement of the pre-school project for Presentation School at Roxboro Road will cause the school in question and particularly the parents of children attending the existing pre-school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
I have received the correspondence to which the Deputy refers and I have noted the concerns expressed by the management of the school in question.
Decisions on the selection of locations for inclusion in the pilot pre-school project were taken after detailed consideration of needs across the disadvantaged areas.
In the case of each area chosen, the intention is that the pre-school project will serve children from the catchment area of the school to which the project is being attached. Indeed, I would be most anxious that the projects now being established should not in any way interfere with existing pre-schools which I would see as continuing to serve their existing catchment areas.
