Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the increase of pupils in primary schools here is growing at an extremely fast pace and that many locations which have received permanent status under her Department are still utilising temporary accommodation which was set up at the onset of the school being founded; if her attention has further been drawn to a primary school (details supplied) County Galway which is a case in point; and her views on this case. [6656/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application for a new build school in respect of the school referred to by the Deputy has been assessed and the long term projected staffing, on which the accommodation needs will be based, has been determined and notified to the school authority. The current position regarding the site acquisition is that the Office of Public Works (OPW), which generally acts on behalf of the Department on the acquisition of sites for schools, has been asked to source a suitable site for the school in question. At this stage a number of sites have been identified and the OPW has commenced negotiations on the most suitable of these sites.