Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

There are approximately 20 children in the Greystones-Kilcoole area who are in sixth class at the moment and still do not have a secondary school place for September. Their sixth class year will finish in ten weeks' time. Their peers are getting their yearbooks ready, going to open days in their secondary schools and picking their subjects, but these children still have no idea where they will go to school in September. It is wholly unacceptable to treat parents and children in this manner. It is the absolute opposite of being child-centred in education. We have been promised for months now that there would be an answer from the Department of Education on this and that those places would be provided. Will the Tánaiste please let us and those parents know when the children will be told they will have places and where they will be going?

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