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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

MOTION NO.5

MOTION: Councillor P. Foley

"Firhouse Educate Together National School (FETNS) is losing two teachers at the end of October as the school do not meet the required pupil teacher ratio set out by the Department of Education. Forty four per cent (44%) of the children, or 76 out of the 171 children enrolled in this school, require additional attention. This is a hugely disproportionate number compared to other schools.

Firhouse Educate Together new National School building has a Special Needs Unit but cannot be opened as the Department of Education has requested that Firhouse Educate Together National School use this space to accommodate pupils from the neighbouring Gaelscoil Na Giúise for most of the remainder of the 2017/18 academic year. 

As this school has a special set of circumstances, an exception needs to be made, we request that the Chief Executive write to the Department of Education asking for a review of the particulars of this case."

REPORT:

"If the motion is passed a letter will be written to the Department of Education and Skills in this regard."