Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 18 Oct 1994

Vol. 445 No. 9

Written Answers. - Post Primary Education.

Mary Harney

Ceist:

247 Miss Harney asked the Minister for Education the number of children that left the national schools in the Kingswood and Kilnamanagh areas of Dublin 24 over the past five years; and the post-primary schools where they have been accommodated. [1464/94]

Minister for Education (Ms Bhreathnach)

On the following statement, which I propose to circulate in the Official Report, are set out the number of children who, according to Department records, left the national schools in the Kingswood-Castleview and Kilnamanagh areas over the past five years.

A complete listing of where each child from these national schools attended post-primary school is not available within my Department. The majority of children from these areas over the past five years have been accommodated in the following schools:— Drimnagh CBS; Greenhills College; Assumption Secondary School, Walkinstown; St. Paul's Secondary School, Greenhills; Tallaght Community School; Loreto Secondary School, Crumlin.

With regard to the current position concerning the future provision of post-primary education for children from the Kingswood-Castleview and Kilnamanagh areas I would refer the Deputy to my reply to her Parliamentary Question No. 258 of Wednesday, 12 October 1994.

Numbers of children who left the national schools* in Kingswood/Castleview and Kilnamanagh, Dublin 24 to enter post-primary education over the past five years 1990-94

Year	Castleview Boys	Castleview Girls	Kilnamanagh Boys	Kilnamanagh Girls	Total Boys	Total Girls	Grand Total
1990	36	33	101	89	137	122	259
1991	35	30	124	112	159	142	301
1992	53	43	106	99	159	142	301
1993	57	56	124	94	181	150	331
1994	58	49	90	98	148	147	295

*There are three national schools in question:— St. Killian's Senior (Co-ed) NS, Castleview; St. Kevin's Boys NS, Kilnamanagh; St. Kevin's Girls NS, Kilnamanagh.