Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Five months ago it was progressing at conveyancing stage. The point is that more than two years ago two Ministers made pre-election promises and told the people of the area these schools were in the bag. Two years on, first class pupils have to be bussed up to Broombridge. Broombridge is not in this area. The other schools the Minister has spoken about are not in Ashtown either and many of them are Catholic schools. I am asking what is the plan to get Pelletstown Education Together national school out of the buildings it is in and not into temporary prefabs but the permanent school promised to it more than two years ago. In fact, people are now concerned about secondary schools, and that there is none in the area. Castleknock is being cited, which is now a Christian Brothers school thanks to the Department of Education and Skills not seeing fit to have a more non-denominational school. There is no school planned for the area. It is a bit disappointing. The principal, the parents and others would be very disappointed that here we are at the end of 2017 and there does not seem to have been any progress on acquiring the site and moving the school into a permanent building.

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