Ms Muireann Carr:

Deputy Thomas Byrne asked me to expand on the bus issue. When our school moved to its second temporary campus we moved out of our original catchment area. It was more than 3 km from where many of our parents lived. The parent-teacher association, PTA, organised a bus that might help to facilitate those parents who had been displaced or who now had to travel to school from much farther away. Each parent put an application in to see if they could get the bus, and even though enough applications were received, the bus would not be facilitated. That was one issue we faced during the change from one temporary campus to another.

Senator Grace O'Sullivan asked what could be done to ease the stress and difficulty we would face in temporary accommodation. We found the communication from the Department to be lacking. It would not solve our difficulties on its own but better communication would help. We found out via a Deputy's Twitter account that we were moving to the Notre Dame campus. We had not been informed about that. It was announced and heralded as a great thing, but the school was not aware of it. The parent body was very shocked, as was the management body. We had never heard of this before.