Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No school has closed as a consequence of this. In respect of the value-for-money audit of schools, the Minister carried out an assessment of what it means. The Government has no intention of closing any school. It is a different prospect if parents, themselves, decide to suggest amalgamating with another school or other schools, as happened with the schools in Richmond Eskeragh and Keenagh in my constituency. The parents, themselves, made the decision that in three schools in an area there should be closures and once the transport arrangements were addressed they made the decision. It is not a case of the Government having any intention here. The value-for-money audit-----

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