Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 281: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to a college (details supplied) in County Donegal which is threatened with closure this season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9055/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department decided that recognition for the purposes of providing summer courses in respect of which grants are paid by the Department would be withdrawn from the college referred to by the Deputy because a failure by the college authorities to comply with conditions laid down by the Department, and accepted in writing by the college authorities, for the recognition of the college in 2006. The authorities of the college were formally notified of the decision on 16th February, 2007. I understand that an application for recognition for the purposes of providing summer courses in respect of which grants are paid by the Department is being prepared for submission to my Department by the authorities of another college in the area. When the relevant documentation is received, arrangements will be made to have the application processed and a decision communicated to the authorities concerned as speedily as possible.