COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan

"To ask the Chief Executive what is the current situation with the Gaelscoil in Knocklyon, what is the barrier to their new school being built?"

REPLY:

Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna is located in temporary accommodation on a South Dublin County Council owned site at Knocklyon Road, Dublin 16. The Council agreed to dispose of this site to the Department of Education and Skills in February 2007 to enable permanent school accommodation to be provided on the site.

Due to a land registration anomaly, the disposal has not been completed due to a strip of unregistered land that comprised part of the former (i.e. pre M50) Knocklyon Road that now forms part of the site. Without regularisation of the property registration status of this strip of former road, the Council can’t offer clean title to the Department. Given that the school has been in operation on the site this would seem like a matter that should have been resolved without significant delay, however the strip of land in question has never been registered and the Property Registration Authority has to date, queried the options put forward by our legal advisors to register the property.We have sought to bring matters to a head, including, inter alia, an extant attempt at adverse possession. The Council has advised the Department of Education and Skills that it is unlikely that a legal resoultion can be found to the Title anomaly and the Department is seeking legal advice in relation to this.

Funding and delivery of a permanent school at this location is a matter for the Department of Education and Skills capital funding programme, however in keeping with the spirit of the MoU for School Site Identification and Acquisition, the planning department is liaising closely with the Department regarding the delivery of a permanent school at this site.