Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of a school (details supplied) which is urgently seeking accommodation to facilitate enrolments it has received for the school year commencing in September 2008; if her Department will expedite the procedure for recognition of this school and provide the accommodation they require in order that they can open in September 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4239/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The New School Advisory Committee (NSAC) has received an application for the recognition of a new primary school in September, 2008 in the location referred to by the Deputy. The NSAC is an independent advisory group established to process applications for the recognition of new primary schools and to make recommendations to the Minister for Education and Science. It is expected that the NSAC will produce its report by the end of March.

Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) who are urgently seeking accommodation to facilitate enrolments that they have for the school year commencing in September 2008; if her Department will expedite the procedure for recognition of this school and provide the accommodation they require in order that they can open in September 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4240/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The New School Advisory Committee (NSAC) has received an application for the recognition of a new primary school in September, 2008 in the location referred to by the Deputy. The NSAC is an independent advisory group established to process applications for the recognition of new primary schools and to make recommendations to the Minister for Education and Science. It is expected that the NSAC will produce its report by the end of March.

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when additional classrooms will be provided in view of the serious overcrowding in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [4253/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy made an application for capital funding towards the provision of additional accommodation. An assessment of projected enrolment trends, demographic trends and housing developments in the area was carried out in order to determine the long term accommodation needs of the school. This has been finalised and notified to the school. The proposed building project will be considered in the context of my Department's multi-annual School Building and Modernisation.