Minister for Education to meet with Waterford school over controversial extension changes
Minister Hildegarde Naughton is due to meet the Board of Management of the Dungarvan-based Scoil Garbháin
Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton is set to meet with the board of a Waterford school to discuss the reduction of the school’s proposed extension.
Minister Naughton is due to meet the Board of Management of the Dungarvan-based Scoil Garbháin tomorrow.
The meeting comes after the Department of Education announced its intention to scale back a proposed extension to the school.
A nine-classroom extension was originally envisaged, but that has now been reduced to just three classrooms.
An extension of one mainstream classroom and two special education classrooms is now being proposed.
Fine Gael councillor Damien Geoghegan confirmed the details of the meeting at the June meeting of the Dungarvan-Lismore Municipal District.
Cllr Geoghegan, who is a member of the Board of Management himself, said that Waterford TD and Minister of State John Cummins had arranged the meeting.
Fianna Fáil councillor Tom Cronin later told the meeting that he had been in touch with Minister of State Mary Butler and that she would also be in attendance.
A motion was subsequently unanimously passed by councillors which called on Minister Naughton and the Department of Education to reverse their decision.