Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have certainly established the attraction of Gaelscoileanna and the multidenominational piece. The evidence is there regarding the enrolments. Coming back to the Irish-medium secondary school piece, Carmel Nic Airt mentioned joined-up thinking in one of her answers to Deputy O'Rourke. That is the big piece here for me. For example, let us bring it local again. Practical examples are the best way to explain this. There was the community college in Clonakilty where I went to school that is already under pressure for numbers. It got an extension which involved about €12 million of an investment, from what I can remember. Carmel Nic Airt mentioned in her presentation that west Cork is a growth area. The population is growing. Within two years of that extension being built, the school was already at capacity. It reached a point where there was a waiting list of 36 students to get into the school. The convent, which is the other secondary school, does not enrol males and that is part of the reason. I almost know the answer to my question, but are we far better off investing again in extending the English-language secondary school and invest in that or does a Irish-medium secondary school remove that headache a bit? Carmel Nic Airt mentioned 800 and 820 enrolments. Does that go a way to removing that headache with waiting lists?