18 January 2010
NEW IRISH LANGUAGE POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL UNDER CONSIDERATION BY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, FOLLOWING REPRESENTATIONS BY LOCAL MINISTER TREVOR SARGENT, T.D.
Minister for Food & Horticulture and local T.D., Trevor Sargent, has requested his government colleague, Mr Batt O’Keeffe, T.D., Minister for Education and Science, to assist with the provision of a new Irish language post-primary school in North County Dublin, given the number of Irish language medium primary schools now operating in the area. With Balbriggan, Swords, Kinsealy and Rush and Lusk at primary level all producing pupils seeking an Irish medium post-primary school it is clear that the demand for such a post primary school is continuing to grow in the area.
Following representations from Minister Sargent to Minister O’Keeffe, the Minister for Education and Science replied, “overall post-primary accommodation requirements in the Balbriggan area, including the case for the provision of a new Irish language post-primary school, will be considered.”
In response, Minister Sargent said that “the success of Irish language schools in the area and the clear demand from parents for their children to be educated through the medium of Irish points to the need for a post-primary secondary school not just for the primary schools in North County Dublin, but also for nearby schools such as the Irish language medium primary school in Drogheda.”
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