Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

From one Wicklow TD to another, I wish the Taoiseach the absolute best in his new role.

I feel like a broken record when I address this issue. The Taoiseach is familiar with it. It is the 20 or so students in Greystones who do not have a secondary school place yet for September. We have been repeatedly told that a solution will be found for them. We are only five or six weeks away from secondary schools closing and the primary schools will close a few weeks later. These students do not know where they will be going in late August. Entrance exams are happening at the moment. Applications for the school transport scheme close in less than two weeks' time. Will the Taoiseach give a timeframe indicating when those parents and students will be told they will have a place for school?

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