andMr. Keaveney asked the Minister for Education the progress that has been made in the investigations to determine the most suitable site for the proposed community school in Gweedore, County Donegal.

Officials of my Department are visiting the Gweedore area today and I anticipate having a report from them at a very early date in relation to the matter of the most suitable site for the community school.

Is the Minister aware that some weeks or months ago he indicated in the House that two if his officers would visit Gweedore in the first week of May?

I am, but unfortunately because of other commitments they were unable to get there. The Deputy will be aware they have other commitments in the area which must be examined.

Whatever other commitments they have the Minister must be aware this is the most long-standing unresolved commitment in the area. Regardless of elections or any other such things, can we hope to have from the Minister, arising from the visit of his officers, some hope that something will be done about the site for the school in Gweedore?

I will do it as soon as I possibly can depending on the information that comes back. Other people in the county are just as uncertain about their areas and although they might accept that the Gweedore claim is very strong, I do not think they would agree it should be given overall priority.

The Gweedore school project is not only long-standing but under the law there has been a departmental commitment, an agreement. The agreement involved two other community schools, and all three, including Gweedore, were to be started simultaneously, be of the same type and quality, be available for the same type of courses.

Could we have brief questions?

Gweedore, which was to be an all-Gaelic school is still——

The Deputy is making a speech.

There is a site which is totally unsuitable and the Department seem to say "You can have any site you like"——

I shall have to call the next question if the Deputy continues on these lines.

I think the Deputy has isolated the kernel of the problem, the dispute over the suitability of the site. That is why the matter has not been resolved sooner and why the inspectors from my Department are in Donegal at present.

Would the Minister take a look at the law under which the agreement was made with the vocational education committee in Donegal who have a community school in Gweedore? What has he to say about the manner in which the Department and the Government have flouted the law in regard to that agreement they made——

I want to deal with other questions also.

There can be other questions but there is only the one school as far as the biggest Gaeltacht in Ireland is concerned.

Question No. 9.

The Deputy understands very well the problems which have arisen in regard to this school.

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