Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to provide additional school places for the developing population in the area around and near Kinsale, Cork south west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7156/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Last year my Department identified the rapidly developing areas which would require significant extra accommodation for 2008. The Developing Areas Unit of the Department is now advancing the delivery of 30 new primary schools which are planned to be in place for September 2008 to meet the needs of these areas.

In the meantime, the Forward Planning Section of the Department is identifying the areas where significant additional accommodation will be needed for 2009 and onwards. Forward Planning Section's findings will likewise feed into the Developing Areas Unit for delivery. The areas to which the Deputy refers will be examined again, as they were last year, in this context.

If any of the schools concerned require temporary accommodation in the meantime, they should apply immediately and in the normal way to the Modernisation and Policy Unit of my Department which is based in Tullamore, County Offaly.