Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

There are many school sites on which there are prefabs but I have not seen many sites on which there are two-storey prefabs or where there is one prefab on top of another. As the Deputy will be aware, the problem is that the site is constricted and the school is effectively occupying the site. There is a difficulty in terms of how to build on the school site and at the same time run the school. There was talk in the past, of which the Deputy is probably aware, of an alternative site being located further down the South Circular Road but, to the best of my knowledge, it is no longer available. The Deputy can take it from my point of view that the demand for the school clearly exists. There is excess demand because there is a demand for even another school, with which the Deputy will be familiar. We are examining ways in which we can overcome the problem. It is a unique building problem and if we can find an alternative site, we will. I would love to be able to give the Deputy, as I said to the principal of the school and to others, a much clearer and definite response in terms of time, but I am simply not in a position to do so and I do not want to mislead the Deputy.

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