James Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to do everything he can to remedy this situation given the impact it is having on the community. This school was once a start-of-the-art facility with a great reputation but people are now starting to walk away from it. This is the last thing we need when North County Dublin is bursting at the seams in terms of the number of children applying for school places from areas such as Rush, Lusk, Skerries, Balbriggan and Swords. As a resident of Lusk, we do not want to have to send our secondary school children outside of their village, away from their friends and community, to complete their secondary school education. This is having a detrimental effect on the community, families and local clubs which are critical to any community.