Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the position regarding a new school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; her views on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10537/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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All new schools, either at primary level or post-primary level, are set up to meet specific demographic needs within defined geographical areas.

As part of the patronage determination processes to establish who will operate new schools, prospective patrons must commit to enrolling, as a priority, pupils from the area for whom the school is intended. The Department would expect to see this in the enrolment policies for new schools.

Consistent with the approach outlined, the school to which the Deputy refers was set up to meet a demographic need in a particular area. Details of this area together with the assessment of applications for patronage of the school are published on the Department's website at l/New-Post-Primary-Schools.html.

With regard to permanent accommodation for the school, the process of site identification and acquisition is on-going at present in cooperation with the local authority.