Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

The Commission on School Accommodation completed a public consultation process on foot of this draft plan and its final report was published in September 2007 in regard to north Dublin. The recommendations in the report, together with the information obtained from the GIS analysis will be used to inform capital investment decisions in the Lusk area for the foreseeable future.

The Commission on School Accommodation report and the GIS data indicates that up to between 800 and 1,000 additional post-primary pupil places may well be required in the coming years in the area concerned. The Department is already taking action to ensure that these places will be delivered commensurate with the need. The progression of the acquisition of a site and the accompanying building project will be considered in the context of the capital budget available to the Department for school buildings generally.

I assure the Deputy we are taking all the views into account and I am delighted to outline where we are in the context of future plans for the first secondary school in Lusk.

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