Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a library will be returned to its original location in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23428/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question.

The purpose of the Additional School Accommodation scheme (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.

It is open to the school authority to make an application for additional accommodation through the ASA scheme which is available at www.gov.ie.