Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further consideration will be given to an application for additional permanent accommodation at a school (details supplied) in view of classrooms being overcrowded and a projected growth in enrolment; if this application will be progressed without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41652/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the deputy that my Department has no record of receiving a recent application for additional accommodation from the school referred to.

The school applied for additional accommodation in 2017 and my Department advised the school, at that time, that priority was being given to applications from schools where an additional teacher was being appointed, that it was not possible to provide a grant to the school in question as the school’s enrolment did not warrant the appointment of an additional teacher.