Ní féidir an t-Aire aitheantais don Gaelcholáiste a diultú ar cúis airgeadais
Sliochta as Óráid Buséid Brian Lenihan/Extracts from Brian Lenihan’s Budget speech 2008:
Education
Investment in Education is essential for our future prosperity. I have provided for an increase of €308 million in the total expenditure provision for Education in 2009. €230 million of this increase is for current expenditure, to provide for the additional costs across the system as a result of increasing student numbers due to demographic factors…
School Building
This year we are investing €810 million in capital projects for Education. Next year I am providing €889 million: an increase of €79 million.
Continued strong investment in our primary and post-primary school infrastructure remains a key priority for the Government. This year, we have delivered 12,000 new primary school places, a record number in any one year. Next year, 581 million, or two-thirds of the total education capital budget, will be devoted to the school building programme.
This substantial investment will provide additional school places, in response to the increased population. It will allow for the modernisation of the existing school infrastructure….
The Minister for Education and Science will be providing further details in due course.
In our letter to the Minister of education we drew his attention to the following costs ratio:
The school building, at Sydenham Road, Dundrum, County Dublin, is centrally located to most of the schools participating in our campaign for the new school. It would accommodate the 350 students identified in our surveys as likely to attend the school. The cost of refurbishment of the school and its equipment to modern standards is estimated to be under €3million and therefore is considerably less than the costs of other new schools recently established on green field sites elsewhere in the county. To the best of our knowledge schools have recently been established in the north of the county at a cost in the region of €20-€25. For a 1,000 pupil school this represents a capital investment of €20,000 to €25,000 for each student place. With the cost of refurbishing Sydenham Rd. estimated at under €3M for 340 pupils this represents a capital investment of less than €9,000 for each student place.
Please help us now by calling on the Minister to meet with us without delay and to grant the Gaelcholáiste the departmental recognition required to enable the new school open in 2009.
SÍNIGH ÁR ACHAINÍ -ANSEO/SIGN OUR PETITION HERE or
Scríobh chuig an Aire/Write Directly to the Minister ANSEO-HERE
Nó téigh i dteagmháil le bhur polaiteoirí áitiúla/Or Contact you local Representative ANSEO-HERE
Teastaíonn aitheantas ón Aire uainn no caillfear an seans seo chun breis áiseanna oideachais trí Ghaeilge a chur ar fáil/ We need the go ahead from the Minster and the Department now or this opportunity to provide adequate, additional, second level education through Irish will be lost.