The Taoiseach will be familiar with the Educate Together secondary school in Cork. It now has 400 students and the first students are doing their leaving certificate this year, so the school is open about six years. During that six years, the school has been in two locations, neither of which is directly in the catchment area. It is currently based in Wellington Road. The Department spends about €80,000 to €90,000 a year on school transport bringing students to the current site. The Taoiseach might have seen the video doing the rounds, “A school of our own”. They want to know when the planning application for the next application is coming forward. It was supposed to happen towards the middle or end of last year and it has not happened. They urgently need a permanent site. Will the Taoiseach give a date for the planning application to be submitted? Obviously, it is then over to Cork City Council but, first, the planning application has to come from the Department and they have been waiting on that for some time.

I am happy to engage with the school in regard to the processing of this. I am well aware of the situation. We want to do this as quickly as we possibly can.