Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area for Irish medium schools, gaelscoilenna, into which schools (details supplied) in Dublin 8 fall. [51299/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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There are no catchment areas specifically for Irish-medium schools. However for planning purposes the country is divided into geographic districts each with several primary schools feeding into a post-primary centre with one or more post-primary schools. These defined districts facilitate the orderly planning of school provision and accommodation needs.

The schools in the areas referred to by the Deputy fall in to the Ballyfermot_Dublin10 and the Dublin 8 feeder areas respectively. My Department's main responsibility is to ensure that schools in an area can, between them, cater for all pupils seeking school places in an area.