Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-15
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Patrick Costello (GP), Dublin South-Central

In Dublin South-Central there is a huge under-provision of second level education. Figures from the Department of Education show that in Dublin 8 alone there are about 3,500 primary school pupils and there are currently second level places for less than a third of them. A new school is badly needed. There is an old SIPTU college site on South Circular Road, with an under-used Office of Public Works, OPW, warehouse abutting it. The college is already zoned for educational use. There is a Dublin City Council site on Marrowbone Lane. These are two sites that could easily be used to address this imbalance. Can the Government commit to providing a new school to address this imbalance? More widely, we need to look at how we do school planning because it just is not working.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-15