Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider granting additional resources to a school (details supplied) to allow it to provide additional places in the school given the additional demand resulting in many locally-based children unable to obtain a place in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43206/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware where capacity issues arise it may not be as a result of lack of accommodation but may be driven by the following factors:

- Duplication of applications – pupils have applied for a place  to a number of schools in the area

- School of choice – pupils can’t get a place in their preferred school while there are places in other schools in the town/area

- Some towns/areas have single sex schools and while places are available in the school there are not available to all pupils

- External draw – pupils coming from outside the local area

The school referred to by the Deputy is one of two post-primary schools in the Mulhuddart_Tyrelstown_D15 School Planning Area (SPA) and my Department is satisfied that there is sufficient capacity in these two school to meet the long-term project enrolments of the area.