Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 22 March 2007, the dates of such meetings and the schools represented at such meetings; if there was a suggestion or offer at such meetings of any property being offered for sale to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12207/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Officials from the Department have facilitated preliminary discussions between the Trustees of the schools involved in a possible amalgamation. On 5 May, 2006, an initial meeting was held by officials from School Planning Section of the Department with the Trustees of two of the schools in question. A further meeting was facilitated on 30 June 2006 between the Trustees of all three schools involved in a potential amalgamation. At these meetings, the Trustees outlined details of their preliminary proposals on amalgamating the schools. The Department has no record of an offer to sell property at these meetings.

To date, no formal proposal to rationalise post primary education provision has been received from the Trustees of the schools by the Department.