Mr. Hubert Loftus:

On Greystones, we have made very significant investment in that area in recent years and the projects referred to by the Deputy are part of that pipeline going forward. Greystones Community College is one of the more immediate projects; it is going through the procurement process. We can provide updates on Kilcoole and Temple Carrig School. The school at Kilcoole is part of our pipeline which I referred to earlier with regard to the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, and, again, as I said earlier that is a very good delivery mechanism for us. It is delivering many projects and we would certainly see that as important.

On September 2024, we have just come through September 2023 and we have started engagement with stakeholders, not just in the context of September 2024 but also September 2025, in looking ahead to see where are the capacity pressure points to be managed and to work through solutions. Greystones would be part and parcel of that.

The best way of managing that - this is something we stress in our engagement with stakeholders - is ensuring good co-ordination of enrolment times between the schools-----