Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Possible Reconfiguration of Schools: Archdiocese of Dublin

2:25 pm

Ms Anne McDonagh:

I think it is all over, because I do not see how one can maintain two huge campuses like we have here for the number of pupils involved. We had a meeting last Friday week with the chairpersons and the principals and some of the deputy principals and talked about the issues. We discussed all the different options and somebody asked whether if we ended with a junior school and a senior school, we could have one on one campus and one on the other. We said that financially we could not possibly maintain the two campuses. As matters stand, the De La Salle Brothers maintain the grass and pitches and so on, but when they are gone, who will pay for that? The number of pupils is not big enough for two sites. That is the bottom line.