Education Policy
Dail Éireann — 2024-07-11
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Cathal Crowe (FF), Clare

I get what the Minister is saying about enrolment, but I hope that if the level of enrolment increases, as I am confident it will, this will remain under review. The Minister has in recent weeks sanctioned a new school for Gaelscoil Donncha Rua in Shannon. The Irish language movement in the county is growing, as is the number of students taking on all-Irish education. We are specifically looking for neamhspleáchas, or independence, in order that the school will have its own roll book, principal, board of management and structure, and through that, it can continue to grow and grow.
I sit on the board of Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh, which has really thrived and been a success story but it got that through neamhspleáchas and through having its own identity. We really hope Clare will not remain an outlier and that it will get its own independent, or neamhspleách, Gaelcholáiste i mbaile na hInse. Tá Dónal Ó hAiniféin agus baill an chláir Gaeilge ag féachaint isteach ar an díospóireacht inniu. I hope that if the level of enrolment continues to increase, as I believe it will, this will be reviewed. We deserve a Gaelcholáiste. The Minister has visited the area. She opened that building and has supported it greatly, for which we are so grateful. I hope everything will remain fluid if the level of enrolment increases.

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Sitting date: 2024-07-11