Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding an additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied) for renovation of an old building to accommodate two special educational needs classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16587/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an Additional Schools Application (ASA) form from the school authority referred to by the Deputy. The application is currently in the final stages of assessment.

and the school authority will be directly notified of the decision shortly.

The purpose of the ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education 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 Teacher Allocation Section, or a new SEN class has been sanctioned by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.