Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

As the Deputies stated, an application for an extension to St. Mary's and St. Gerard's national school was received. When the original application was made, the extension would have been too small for the school's needs. Subsequently, an assessment was made of the long-term needs of the school and it was determined, and agreed with the school authority, that the school should be extended to a 16 mainstream classroom school.

I wish to confirm to the Deputy that the school has a band one rating. There must have been a mistake in the reply to the parliamentary question. The letter sent to the board of management was correct.

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