Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1432: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the need for the provision of three extra classrooms in 2006 and five extra classrooms in 2007 for the school going children of the Laytown and Bettystown areas; her plans in this regard; the time-frame for the implementation of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30011/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department approved the provision of 5 temporary classrooms to cater for additional primary school pupils in the Laytown and Bettystown area for September 2006. Unfortunately because of problems with objections to the planning permission for the temporary accommodation the school authorities were unable to have the temporary accommodation in place for the start of the school year.

However the entire Junior Infant intake is now accommodated in a combination of prefab accommodation on the senior school site and in the senior schools GP room. The senior GP room can be vacated by the mid-term break if there are no objections to An Bord Pleanála for the installation of further prefab accommodation on the site.

With regard to the schools needs for additional classrooms for 2007 the Department has taken over from the Patron with regard to acquiring the necessary permanent site for the Junior School with a view to concluding the acquisition as quickly as possible to move the delivery of the permanent structure forward. It would be the Department's intention to relocate the Junior School to temporary accommodation on the new site for 2007.