Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a school (details supplied) has been left to function without a board of management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47576/18]

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is operating with a single manager instead of a board of management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47637/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 81 together.

Under the provisions of the Education Act 1998, it is the duty of the Patron to appoint, where practicable, a Board of Management. The Education Act 1998 also provides that the Patron may appoint a person or persons to manage the school in circumstances where the appointment of a Board is not practicable or where the Patron has dissolved the Board and pending the appointment of a new Board of Management.

In the case of the school in question, the Patron has, in accordance with the provisions of section 14 (8) of the Education Act 1998 appointed a Single Manager to manage the school.