Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 580: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Galway and the fact that the school was built in 1980 to cater for 350 pupils and in September 2007 it will have 708 pupils on its roll book; if her attention has further been drawn to the rapid expansion that is taking place in Athenry with the consequential sharp rise in the number of people living in Athenry and the surrounding areas and that a site has been identified in close proximity to the town which would be suitable for the proposed new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11650/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application for an extension has been received from the school to which the Deputy refers. An assessment of projected enrolments, demographic trends and housing developments in the area, is under way in the Department which will assist in determining the long term projected enrolment for the school on which the school's long term accommodation needs will be based. When the long-term projected enrolment has been finalised and agreed with the school authorities, the Department will draw up schedules of accommodation for the project which will be considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.