Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That response is almost verbatim the response that was given to my colleague Deputy Pat Buckley last week when he raised this under Topical Issues. It is verbatim the response from the Minister’s private secretary to the school, but here is the thing - the school is not asking to go above its 104 cap. It is not asking for a greenfield site or a new school. It is simply asking for the correct space for the children who are in the school at the moment.

I understand that enrolment is due to rise to 96 this year which is still well below the 104 that the Minister referred to in her reply. I suggest looking at the photographs that were posted not only in the local media but in the national media too of the conditions in which these children are learning and the conditions in which staff are trying to provide appropriate education. It is simply not good enough. It is actually intolerable what this school is going through every day.

The principal has put forward three suggestions. They want to find a solution to this because they recognise the needs of the students cannot be met in the current environment.

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