Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the board of management of a school (details supplied) has announced that the school will close and that the pupils have a very short period of time to find alternative secondary school places; if the boards of management of adjacent schools will be contacted by her Department with a view to ensuring that the displaced pupils will be given priority in order that they can be accommodated into the different schools having regard to the preference and choice of the pupils and their parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8441/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy is a Catholic all girls fee paying school with a total enrolment of 49 pupils. The pupil intake in September 2004 was four pupils. The trustees of the school have notified my Department that a decision has been taken to close the school in June 2005.

I am satisfied that there is sufficient capacity in post-primary schools in the area to cater for pupils who would otherwise have attended the school in question. Assistance with arrangements for specific alternative placements for pupils is in the first instance a matter for the school's management authority.