Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Committee on Education and Youth

Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth

2:00 am

Photo of Helen McEnteeHelen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)

There will be a mixture. The NCSE is working with schools every week and engaging with families every week. As things change, it is updating parents. Approximately 80% of the 399 new school places that have been sanctioned will be in schools where there is repurposing, that is, classrooms that have not been used and classrooms that have been used for something else. There is a grant of approximately €30,000 for schools to repurpose them. In the remaining 20%, a proportion will have new modular buildings in place and in a proportion, transitional arrangements will be put in place. Some of them already do that. They spend some time at home and some in school. In other schools, where some of the modular buildings are not ready, they will bring the children into and accommodate them within the school.

This goes back to my earlier point. The earlier, we can allocate-----

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