Seán Connick (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department has granted an exemption since 2005 to a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19399/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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As an exceptional measure, my Department allowed particular pupils outside the catchment area of the post primary school to which the Deputy refers to enrol in the school over recent years because these pupils had a reasonable expectation that they would be enrolling in the school and did not have sufficient notice to secure an alternative placement within their own catchment area.

The Department made it clear to the Principal of the school in February 2007 that this arrangement would terminate after three years i.e. in 2010, which would give adequate notice for pupils leaving the primary school to which the Deputy refers to secure places in their own catchment area.

I am not aware of pupils being denied enrolment in the school in September 2009 as the arrangement will still be in force at that time.