David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for her response. I visited the Carrigtwohill second level school recently where the Minister turned the sod a while back. It is absolutely magnificent and amazing. It did take 12 years to open from the time the initial decision was made to build it. Has the Minister seen the two-year progress report on the Cork county development plan that was published last Friday? She probably has not. It indicates that in Midleton there are plans to develop 2,647 housing units and 2,173 of them have got planning permission already. In Carrigtwohill, the number is 1,700 houses and almost 1,000 have got planning permission already. I could go on to all the other hamlets and villages around in a similar vein. My concern is that thousands of houses are being planned. There will be huge numbers of houses, which is fantastic to see. Many of the schools the Minister mentioned already are at capacity as it is, however, so what plans are there to develop a further second level school in east Cork? I would put it to the Minister that an Educate Together school would be worth looking at in this regard.

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