Education and Skills – School Patronage Maynooth 21st January 2014

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of meeting the requirements as set out by the school authorities at Maynooth Post Primary School, County Kildare, the extent to which the preferred options as expressed by the various school authorities in the area has been borne in mind and is accepted by his Department; if the unique nature and seamless structure of education in Maynooth, from primary to third level is accepted; if due regard will be taken in the context of the need to ensure that the future provisions and structure of second level education in the area reflects the strongly
expressed preferred views of the persons as indicated in a local plebiscite; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in the determination of the format of the post-primary educational requirements in Maynooth, County Kildare in respect of school buildings at Maynooth Post Primary School, the
Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board has been made aware of the strongly preferred options by parent groups in the area that the proposed two new school buildings should be amalgamated under a single board of management with a principal and deputy principals, that such management would be responsible for enrolment policy and administration; if his Department or the
Kildare €“Wicklow Education and Training Board have the primary statutory responsibility in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

* For WRITTEN answer on Tuesday, 21st January, 2014.
Reference Number: 2922/14, 2923/14

I propose to take questions 281 and 282 together.