Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I met with the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, last night on this issue of school places in the Dublin 15 area, with particular emphasis on Edmund Rice College and Pelletstown Educate Together National School.

Those projects need to go ahead. Work needs to start on the new schools on the new permanent sites. The Minister, Deputy Foley, has agreed to come back to me on the matter as soon as she can. We are all on the same side. We all want to get those schools under construction and we all acknowledge it is overdue. If the schools are to be asked to take students in next year, they will need a guarantee that the new buildings will be available. We are working to make sure we can do that.

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