Written answers

Tuesday, 4 October 2005

Department of Education and Science

School Closures

9:00 pm

Photo of Olwyn EnrightOlwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 493: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has had any contact with a school (details supplied) in County Dublin regarding its proposals to close; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26420/05]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The trustees of the school to which the Deputy refers informed my Department in October 2004 of their intention to close due to falling enrolments.

My Department's main role in a school closure is to ensure that the best interests of the pupils are looked after in the period up to the closure and that there will be sufficient pupil places in existing schools in the general area for pupils who would have normally enrolled in the closing school. To this end, contact has been made with the schools concerned and, on foot of this contact, I am satisfied there is ample capacity to cater for students who would otherwise have attended the school to which the Deputy refers.

In addition to this, officials in my Department met with a parents' representative group in December 2004 to discuss the issue of the school's closure.

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