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Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Department of Education and Skills

Schools Building Projects

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the future of a school (details supplied); the consultation her Department carried out with the school and parents; where students will be relocated to; the capacity of the new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46544/24]

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is working closely with Educate Together and Lucan East ETNS in relation to the school’s relocation to the nearby new school building located at Thomas Omer Way, Kishoge, Lucan.

The location of five new special schools to be established for the 2025/26 school year was announced by the Minister in December. The location of one of these special schools is in the Lucan area. This will be a very important local facility for families and children in the Lucan area who require a school place in a special school.

The decision to repurpose the Lucan East ETNS school to facilitate the establishment of the new special school to provide much needed special school provision in the Lucan area was confirmed by the Minister on 10th December and the school authority was formally notified of the Minister’s decision on that date.

Lucan East ETNS will move from their current location to the new school building that is nearing completion in Kishoge over Easter 2025, with students returning to the new school building following the Easter midterm break.

The school in Kishoge is a new state of the art 16 classroom primary school with 2 Special Education Needs (SEN) classrooms, external hard and soft play areas, new SEN soft play equipment, a secure junior play area, two ballcourts, and 118 bicycle rack units that meets all the Department’s modern technical guidance documents and decarbonisation requirements. The site also better facilitates expansion opportunities into the future.

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