Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I see the situation, the problem is that one cannot maintain two campuses; one cannot keep paying for roofs. It is my opinion, as I live beside the mosque in Clonskeagh, that they picked the wrong campus for the solution, and that the negotiations for the right campus were not made in the timeline as suggested by my colleague. I think the two or three people who made the decision looked at it from the perspective of the numbers. It was a case of looking at 700 pupils as against the 200 pupils up the road, but it was the wrong decision. It would have been better to take the 700 pupils up to a place with playing fields and not to take the 200 pupils down into a smaller space, where it is possible at present to rent a field. That is how I see it. I understand the dilemma for the secretary and I appreciate all she has brought to the table today.