Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for recognition by her Department of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the uncertainty surrounding a completion date for the review of this application is causing great anxiety to parents who have enrolled their children in the school; when a final decision on the application will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20152/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, I recently made an announcement giving recognition to six new Primary Schools with effect from September, 2006. As part of that announcement, I indicated that I had deferred a decision in relation to three other schools including the one to which the Deputy refers. My Department is in correspondence with the patron about a matter of concern raised by the New Schools Advisory Committee relating to the possible impact on enrolment in an existing school of similar type in the same general area as the proposed interim accommodation for the school referred to. As soon as these matters have been fully considered I will announce my decision on the application.