Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the fact that a new 16-classroom school in Naas, Scoil Bhríde, stands idle other than the infants class while more than 400 pupils are educated in prefabs and substandard and overcrowded facilities in that town; the failure to utilise the school fully before 2013 if the present enrolment policy continues; the need for the five other primary schools in the catchment area to agree a common enrolment policy; and in the absence of such an agreement, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to intervene directly to impose an enrolment policy that will enable the new school to open fully in September 2006.

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