Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I am very appreciative of the work that has been done to date and the action that has been taken. However, there is a strong feeling that a separate site is what is needed for this school and, in fact, that is what parents were led to expect. When we look at the numbers for the area, they are only going in one direction. I know how difficult it is to get a school site in Dublin 15 but here is a site that we have, where we could potentially build a dedicated state-of-the-art school that did not just cater to 40 students but up to 100 students in future. When we think of the money that has been spent on home tuition and bus transport, it would be great value for money, as well as being good for the safety of the children. It would mean staff could spend more time working on their independent life skills, rather than thinking about safety or sharing a car park with the secondary school, and the complex issues involved in that. While I appreciate there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes, I request that this be looked at again.