Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 1084: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding progress in providing the urgently needed secondary school for the Donabate/Portrane peninsula in north County Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the predominant view in the community that such a school be run by County Dublin VEC; if she has taken on board the provision to date of a free site as well as a patron body and the presence of large numbers of children justifying the immediate establishment of a local secondary school; and if her attention has further been drawn to the dangerous nature of the journey for many children in accessing secondary schools in other places. [24389/05].

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Officials in the school planning section of my Department are carrying out a review of educational needs in the north Dublin, east Meath and south Louth areas, including Donabate and Portrane, by way of a draft area development plan. The need for a post primary school in Donabate is being considered in this context. The draft plan is nearing completion and I hope to be in a position to publish it shortly. Following this, a public consultation process will be conducted by the commission on school accommodation. The process will culminate in a final area development plan which will provide a blueprint for educational infrastructure in the area for the next decade including the need or otherwise to provide a post primary school in Donabate.