School Accommodation
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-16
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

I understand the financials that the Minister has issued and has spoken about, but I still do not hear a definitive number for what the increase in capacity will be. People, particularly those outside urban areas, are choosing to come to live in smaller towns and villages. They are most welcome to leave the bigger cities, set up in those towns and villages, make them their homes and work and raise their families there. Increasingly, we are seeing that these people are not able to get their children into local schools. That is a reflection of society. A significant number of people do not own their own homes; they rent instead. This means that they may choose, for whatever reason, or be forced into a position of needing to seek alternative accommodation, which has an impact on the towns and villages to which I refer and the enrolment capacity that is available in there.
The Minister mentioned duplicate enrolments. There is a CAO-style application system in Limerick. Instead of just highlighting the problem of duplicate enrolments, what does the Minister intend to do to reduce the impact of them?

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Sitting date: 2024-04-16