Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 November 2020
126. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 753 of 3 November 2020, if her attention has been drawn to a school giving enrolment priority to residents of Dublin 15 despite having opened in response to demographic need in Scribblestown and Finglas west, County Dublin (details supplied); and if the matter will be addressed. [35543/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs the Deputy will be aware, my Department undertakes demographic exercises to identify areas where pressures for school places are anticipated to arise and divides the country into 314 school planning areas for that purpose. The school to which she refers was established to meet emerging demand in the Pelletstown area, largely associated with new residential development and these communities span three school planning areas: Cabra_Phibsboro_D7, Castleknock_D15 and Scribblestown_FinglasWest.
New schools which have been established since 2011 to meet demographic demand are required to prioritise enrolments from the area that they were intended to serve. Given that the primary purpose of the school is to serve the needs of Pelletstown and adjoining areas, the school is required to prioritise enrolments on that basis.
