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13th Apr 2018

Government announces 42 new schools to be opened in Ireland by 2022

Tony Cuddihy

Richard Bruton protests Fingal Battalion Simon Harris

Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton made the announcement on Friday morning.

A total of 42 new schools are to be opened across Ireland over the next four years, Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton has announced.

With 26 of the schools opening at Primary level, a further 16 will be established at Post-Primary level.

Bruton announced that “the requirement for new schools will be kept under on-going review and in particular would have regard to the impact of the increased rollout of housing provision to meet balanced regional development as outlined in Project Ireland 2040.”

The Department says it will continue to monitor areas where ‘the accommodation of existing schools may need to be expanded in order to meet the needs of the local population’ while revealing that ‘approximately 40% of extra school places are delivered by extending existing schools’.

It has also been announced that an online process for the patronage of those schools will be established, beginning this year for schools slated to open in 2019.

In announcing the project, it was revealed that, ‘A key determinant of the successful patron, is the preferences of parents of pre-school children in that area. Patronage processes for schools due to open in 2019 will take place this year. The Minister also announced today that a new online Patronage Process system is being developed. This new system will allow for more efficient collection and processing of parental preferences.’

Minister Bruton added: “Since 2011, we have created 122,000 new and replacement school places. We are now creating more school places than at any other period in the history of the State. In 2010, some 9,000 school places were created. In 2017, we built approximately 18,800.

“If we want to be the best in Europe, we need to make sure that we are planning for future need and providing state of the art facilities for future generations.

“I am announcing these 26 new primary schools and 16 new post-primary schools today which, together with large-scale projects such as school extensions and projects under the Additional Accommodation Scheme, will serve to meet education needs over the next four years across the country.”

Full details of the schools to be opened by 2022

Area – Primary school size – Completed by

1 Booterstown_Blackrock 8   classrooms 2019
2 Donaghmede_Howth_D13 16   classrooms 2019
3 Drumcondra_Marino_Dublin1 8   classrooms 2019
4 Dublin6_Clonskeagh   & Dublin_6W (Regional Solution) 16   classrooms 2019
5 Dunshaughlin 8   classrooms 2019
6 Glasheen_CorkCity/Pouladuff 8   classrooms 2019
7 Goatstown_Stillorgan_DLR 16   classrooms 2019
8 Kilcoole/Newtownmountkennedy 8   classrooms 2019
9 Killester_Raheny_Clontarf 8   classrooms 2019
10 Leixlip 8   classrooms 2019
11 Maynooth 8   classrooms 2019
12 Swords/South 8   classrooms 2019
13 Swords/North 8   classrooms 2019
14 Carrigaline 16   classrooms 2020
15 Donabate 16   classrooms 2020
16 Newcastle_Rathcoole/Saggart 8   classrooms 2020
17 Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/Cherrywood 16   classrooms 2020
18 Bray/Woodbrook   Shanganagh 8   classrooms 2021
19 Clondalkin_D22 8   classrooms 2021
20 Donaghmede_Howth_D13 16   classrooms 2021
21 Dublin2_Dublin4 16   classrooms 2021
22 Gurranbraher_CorkCity 8   classrooms 2021
23 Kilkenny/City,   Western Environs 16   classrooms 2021
24 Naas 8   classrooms 2021
25 Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/North 8   classrooms 2021
26 Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/Cherrywood 16   classrooms 2022

Area – Post-primary school size – Completed by

1 Donaghmede_Howth_D13/Belmayne/Clongriffin 1,000   pupils 2019
2 GalwayCity   & Oranmore (Regional Solution) 1,000   pupils 2019
3 Laytown   & Drogheda (Regional Solution) 600   pupils 2019
4 Wicklow 600   pupils 2019
5 Blanchardstown_West   D15 & BlanchardstownVge_D15 (Regional Solution) 800   pupils 2020
6 Goatstown_Stillorgan   DLR 800   pupils 2020
7 Enfield   (Kilcock school planning area) 500   pupils 2020
8 Citywest/Saggart   (Tallaght & Newcastle_Rathcoole school planning areas) (Regional   Solution) 1,000  pupils 2020
9 Dublin6_Clonskeagh   & Dublin_6W (Regional Solution) 1,000   pupils 2020
10 Ballincollig 600   pupils 2021
11 Booterstown_Blackrock   & Dunlaoghaire (Regional Solution) 1,000   pupils 2021
12 Donaghmede_Howth_D13/Baldoyle/Stapolin 800   pupils 2021
13 Dublin2_Dublin4 600   pupils 2021
14 Kilcoole   & Greystones (Regional Solution) 800   pupils 2021
15 Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR/Cherrywood 600   pupils 2021
16 Drumcondra_Marino_Dublin1 1,000   pupils 2022

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