Michael Conaghan (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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It makes no sense to close down the best and squash everyone into the inferior campus, and I do not mean in schools. I am talking in terms of physical space and the buildings, architecturally and physically.

It is an insult to the people. Everyone in Ballyfermot is angry, and not just the parents, because this is a landmark building. It stands out and is a very attractive building and grounds. The Archbishop's House should reconsider what it has embarked upon and treat parents as partners, not as people to be told what it has decided. Parents must be treated as partners. If one listens to the parents and treat them as partners one will hear a resounding call that the best school should be retained and become the anchor of any reconfiguration, if it goes ahead.