Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional school accommodation has been received in regard to a school (details supplied); and the next steps with regard to this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4126/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that my Department recently received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority referred to by the Deputy.

The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Educational Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation. At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by my Department's Teacher Allocation Section, or a new Special Education Unit class has been sanctioned by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.

On completion of the assessment process, the school authority will be contacted directly with a decision.