Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of her Department’s plans to build new primary and secondary schools to cater for the rapid expansion of the area which is the subject of the North Drogheda Environs Masterplan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22285/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy may be aware, my Department is included among the prescribed bodies to whom local authorities send draft development plans, local area plans or proposed variations to development plans for comment and observations. This enables local authorities to reserve future school sites in areas designated for proposed housing development.

My Department is currently engaged with Louth County Council in relation to the forthcoming Local Area Plan for Drogheda, which will include a review of the Masterplan that the Deputy refers to. The new draft plan will then be assessed and my Department will provide its input and observations on that plan to the Council relating to any future school provision requirements for the Drogheda area, which includes the North Drogheda environs.