Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Education and Skills

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of a school in Dublin 16; her views on these concerns, in respect of the admissions policy for the new secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Reply

My Department is in receipt of correspondence from the school to which the Deputy refers and it will be responding to this correspondence shortly.

All new schools, primary and post-primary, are set up to meet specific demographic demands in distinct geographical areas. This includes the school
to which the Deputy refers.

The enrolment policy for all new schools is expected to reflect the criteria under which a patron body is awarded patronage of a school and, in particular, the undertaking given by a patron to enrol, as a priority, children in the area for whom the Department has identified the need for a school.

This approach is necessary to ensure that children for whom the school is intended are not displaced by children enrolling from outside of the area.