Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 299: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if as a result of extra information supplied by a committee (details supplied) in County Galway parents will be guaranteed that their first year students will be accepted into the college in September 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43070/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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On 12 October, 2006, the Trustees of this school announced that they would be phasing the closure of this school from September, 2007. The school in question is a voluntary secondary school and the decision to withdraw as providers of Education is within the remit of the Patron body, that is the Sisters of Mercy. My Department is examining the information supplied by the committee, referred to by the Deputy, in the light of the Trustees' decision.