Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; her proposals to deal with same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26523/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school to which the Deputy refers applied for the provision of additional temporary accommodation in 2004 to cater for its immediate needs. Grant aid was approved accordingly. My Department did not receive any application from the school for the current school year.

Details of the additional accommodation scheme for the 2006-07 school year were recently published and it is open to the school authority to apply under this scheme for any extra accommodation requirements it may have. The closing date for receipt of applications is 14 October 2005.