Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21929/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department is in receipt of an application for additional school accommodation (ASA) from the school authority in question.

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.

The brief is currently being finalised by my Department's Professional and Technical staff and a decision will be relayed to the school authority shortly.