Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4468/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I  can confirm to the Deputy that the school in question have applied for additional accommodation under the ASA scheme. My Department is currently liaising with the school authority in relation to finalizing the brief.

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