John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of second level school places available in Lucan, County Dublin; the number of first year enrolments that took place in September 2003; the number of persons who failed to obtain school places for first year in 2003; and his Department's plans and projections for second level school places in the Lucan area for the coming years. [12746/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The four schools which provide post-primary education in the Lucan area have a current enrolment of 2,420. Given that the extension projects at St. Joseph's College and Coláiste Phádraig have almost been completed and that a project to provide a new building for Coláiste Cois Life, a developing all-Irish college, will proceed to tender and construction later this year, there will be capacity for 3,027 pupils in the Lucan area. Four schools in areas adjoining Lucan — Palmerstown, Leixlip and Clondalkin — have experienced a significant decline in pupil numbers over the past five years. Accommodation freed up by the decline provides an option in terms of facilitating any further growth in the Lucan area. There were 435 first year enrolments in the schools in September 2003. Information on the number of persons who failed to obtain school places for first year in 2003 is not available.