David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No 188 of 24 June 2009, if he will explain what he means by deficit of mainstream accommodation; the way the deficit constitutes a substantial and significant proportion of the school's overall accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26849/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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A deficit of mainstream accommodation is a shortfall in amount of permanent classrooms to accommodate the teachers allocated to the school.

In the school to which the Deputy refers the original school consists of 3 permanent classrooms and a small ancillary area. This has been further supplemented with temporary accommodation for the current staffing of principal, 8 mainstream teachers and resource teachers.

The long term projected staffing for this school is for principal + 12 and therefore the additional accommodation required to accommodate the full complement of staff which will be assigned to the school is significant relative to the permanent accommodation currently available. A new 12 classroom school on a greenfield site is proposed for the school.