Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue in relation to the patronage of a proposed new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3326/12]

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he anticipates the establishment of a new primary school in a town (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3327/12]

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultations he has had with community and educational interests in an area (details supplied) in County Kildare, in which it is proposed to develop a new primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3328/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 182, 181 and 183 together.

In June 2011, I announced that 20 new primary and 20 new post-primary schools are to be established in the next six years across a number of locations. This announcement included a proposal to establish a new school in the area referred to by the Deputy. This school is to be established in September 2012. Under the application criteria for patronage, applicants were required to provide evidence of parental demand by signing up lists of parents who expressed interest in having their children educated in their new school.

My Department invited patron bodies to make applications for patronage of the new primary schools to be established in 2012 and 2013. A report has been prepared on these applications for the consideration of the New Schools Establishment Group who will submit a report to me in due course for final consideration and decision. Details of the new arrangements for patronage of new schools and the criteria for deciding on patronage of these new schools are available on my Department's website, www.education.ie.