Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any short to medium term plans to provide an Educate Together secondary school in Carlow. [46109/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware, in June 2011, I announced that 20 new post-primary schools are to be established up to 2017 to cater for increasing demographics across a number of locations. This announcement did not include a proposal to establish a new post-primary school in Carlow.

The Forward Planning Section of my Department will continue to analyse demographic trends to determine the level of additional school provision which will be required into the future. Should the need for any new post-primary school emerge in Carlow it will be open to Patron bodies to apply for patronage in line with the established process, which was announced in June 2011.