Mr. Hubert Loftus:

We are engaging with those schools to see what the pathway forward is for them and whether they need a building project solution or whether the demographics are evolving in those areas in relation to those schools. In terms of forward planning, we have good capacity for primary and post-primary levels. At post-primary level nationally, we have around 20,000 school places as capacity in the system and at primary level, we have capacity of the order of 50,000 school places in existing classrooms and other spare classrooms too. Earlier, we used Dublin as an example of an area under pressure. We have primary schools with about 80 spare classrooms. Those are the areas that we are looking at in the context of reconfiguration for special classes or if the Government decides to change the pupil-teacher ratio or whatever.