Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has liaised with Westmeath County Council in order to ensure that there is adequate land zoned in the context of the review of the county development plan taking place to allow a secondary school to be constructed at Kinnegad, County Westmeath in line with the N4/M4 area development plan; if she will ensure that such a school be planned for now in advance of 2011 as set out in the development plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21823/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Since the publication of the N4/M4 area development plan, officials of the Department have met with Westmeath County Council officials on a number of occasions. The future education infrastructural requirements at primary and post primary level in Kinnegad, and county Westmeath generally, were discussed in detail. Population trends in the area are being monitored by School Planning Section and the necessary steps to provide for a new secondary school will be taken to meet needs as they arise.