Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are enough school places available for entry to primary schools in the Carpenterstown area of County Dublin; if the area is one of the areas experiencing increased demographic pressure as termed in response to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 21 April 2016; if she will consider establishing another school to cater for the demographic needs in the Carpenterstown area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8843/16]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As the Deputy will be aware my Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places will arise. The GIS uses data from the Central Statistics Office, Ordnance Survey Ireland, the Department of Social Protection and information from my Department's own databases.

The outcome of the latest demographic exercises, based on the GIS, is that on 17th November 2015, I announced the establishment of 13 new schools to open in 2017 and 2018 to cater for demographic needs.

As part of this announcement I noted that a number of areas nationwide are experiencing increased demographic pressures and the Department will keep the demographic data under ongoing review. For the Carpenterstown Dublin 15 school planning area, this review will take account of updated enrolment and child benefit data and also the impact of capacity increases in adjacent school planning areas. Once the review of the latest available data has been completed the matter of establishing new schools that will be required beyond 2018 can be considered.