Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I understand there are nine schools for which a decision is required as to who the patron will be. The Minister will appreciate, with respect to a new school for the Castleknock-Carpenterstown area, that this process have been under way for months. We understood that we would know the outcome of the patronage identification recommendation process by now, yet in his response to Deputy Stanley, the Minister did not appear to give any precise timeline as to when the parents, the school bodies and the potential school boards would know. As the Minister is aware, in many areas competition for secondary places is extremely intense and parents have to be able to make a decision quite early on what school will be available for their child. When does the Minister intend to make a decision on who will be the patrons of these different schools? I understand, and he might confirm this, there are nine of them in total.

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