Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister of State notes, the school is sharing a site with Ormonde College, a post-leaving certificate, PLC, college, and is sharing some of its woodwork, science, technology and computer facilities. The school has now been granted three rooms in Ormonde College, which means the PLC college is being squeezed for space. It is imperative that this matter progresses because the concept of a pobail school was not taken into account at one time but there is now a growing demand for children to be taught through Irish. There is a Gaelscoil in Kilkenny but only 50% of its students, around 25 to 30 pupils, go on to Coláiste Pobail Osraí each year. Other students come from outside areas to attend the school. I urge the Minister of State to keep this matter on the agenda so that if a site is identified the school can proceed to apply to the Department for a new school on a green field site.