I was contacted by the staff of the Gorey Educate Together National School in County Wexford. The new school was sanctioned by the Department of Education in 2020. The school opened to first year students in September 2021, in temporary accommodation on the Fort Road, Gorey. The board of management raised the issue of a permanent site location many times with the Department. Each time, it was told that talks are ongoing to locate a site for a new school building. It asks that all negotiations on site acquisition must now be finalised so this project can move forward without delay. The families of the Gorey school catchment area, along with the teaching staff and current students, deserve clarity about where their school will be located. Will the Minister raise this matter with the Minister for Education and clarify the site location, since the community has been waiting for more than seven months without any conclusive answers?

I do not have the details but I will follow up and try to get the Department of Education to respond to the Deputy with urgency. It is not right that the school is in such an uncertain place.