Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

There are massive areas of development and apartments are springing up in Rathborne, Pelletstown and Broombridge. This is not rocket science. When one builds houses, people with children will live in them and will need schools. There is also an existing demand on the part of parents who have children of that age. The only schools that exist are St. Dominic's and a single-sex boys school so there is demand right now. I ask the Minister to examine urgently the option of Cabra community college. It is an existing site, I assume it has land available that could be developed and parents are very open to the idea. We have experience in Dublin West, as they do in other areas, of having to persuade the Department of Education and Skills that demand exists when it is very obvious to everyone else that it does. We then have to play catch-up in providing schools. Let us not do that in this area. We should move on this now.

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