Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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Where the confusion arises is that initially, there was a proposal to enrol junior and senior infants. The next thing parents and teachers knew was that there was a proposal, which was presented as a proposal from ERST, to close the school and amalgamate it with St. Vincent's. Now when that hit the airwaves, there was pandemonium. We are talking about a school on a campus, which has sports facilities and 250 years in education, and it was being proposed to amalgamate it with St. Vincent's, which does not have a school yard the size of this room. Nobody knew, or knows, the rationale for that proposal.