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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 22, 2014

QUESTION NO.2

QUESTION: Councillor B. Ferron

To ask the Chief Executive to list all the schools which are currently located within temporary accommodation in the County and provide a detailed report on any discussions which have taken place with the Department of Education in order to move the listed schools to permanent accommodation?

REPLY:

The Department of Education & Skills has provided the following list of schools at least partly in temporary accommodation that includes new schools, schools on the Department's accommodation programme or schools using rented prefabs. 

12014D St Andrew's NS Chapel Hill Lucan Dublin
13217W Holy Family NS Rathcoole   Dublin
16461C St Finian's NS Newcastle Lyons Dublin Dublin
19390U St Mark's SNS   Tallaght Dublin
19462T Scoil Maelruain Junior Old Bawn Avenue Tallaght Dublin 24
19503H Scoil Cronain Rathcoole   Dublin
19510E Talbot SNS Bawnogue Clondalkin Dublin
19542R
  1. Thomas Junior NS
 Esker Lucan Dublin
19574H Divine Word NS Marley Grange Rathfarnham Dublin
19872P GS Caitlín Maude Knockmore Tallaght Dublin
19855P GS Cluain Dolcain Nangor Road Clondalkin Dublin
19676P Scoil Aine Esker Lucan Dublin
19542R St Thomas Junior NS Esker Lucan Dublin
19652B Sacred Heart NS   Tallaght Dublin
19676P Scoil Aine Naofa Esker Lucan Dublin
19782O St Brigids JNS Brookfield Tallaght Dublin
19834H St Aidans NS   Brookfield Dublin
19991A Ghaelscoil na Camoige   Clondalkin Dublin
20043G Gaelscoil Chnoc liamhna Sean Bhothar Chnoc Liamhna Cnoc Liamhna Dublin
20372C ABA Facility (Saplings)   Rathfarnham Dublin
20411J Firhouse ET Firhouse   Dublin
20412L Gaelscoil na Guise Firhouse   Dublin
20426W Scoil Oiscair   Lucan Dublin
20402I Citywest ETNS Citywest   Dublin
20398U Scoil Niamh CNS Citywest   Dublin
20422O Scoil Aoife Brookfield Tallaght Dublin
70080T Lucan Community College   Lucan Dublin

In Autumn 2011 The Department of Education and Skills and the City and County Managers Association established a partnership with the aim of realising the provision of additional school accommodation urgently required to meet the forecasted demand for 45,000 primary school pupils and almost 25,000 post primary schools pupils nationally by 2017/2018. South Dublin County Council's role in this inter-agency programme is to identify and acquire sites for new schools on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills and this role formally came into effect on June 1st 2012 under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Education and Skills and the City and County Managers' Association for the Acquisition of Sites for School Planning.

South Dublin County Council has been working closely with the Department of Education and Skills to acquire sites to deliver urgently required additional primary schools in the County, at the following locations, all of which relate to schools on the above list:

In a number of locations sites have been successfully acquired and planning permission has been granted for new permanent schools, while negotiations are ongoing at other locations.

Where a new school is due to open or continues to operate in temporary accommodation in advance of a permanent site being acquired, the Council, in the spirit of the MoU and inter-agency co-operation, has sought to assist the DoE&S to identify or provide sites for temporary use.

The MoU under which SDCC is operating is primarily for the identification and acquisition of sites for new or existing schools on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. There is also a separate school building programme that applies to many of the schools on the above that are at least partly in temporary accommodation on an existing permanent site.