Deputy Costello: I raise the issue of school provision in Dublin South-Central. While the small increase in variety with Synge Street becoming a Gaelcholáiste has been welcome, there is still no Gaelcholáiste for Dublin 10 or Dublin 12 and no non-denominational, non-religious school for Dublin 8.

These issues need to be fixed and the Department of Education has quite frankly been opaque and contradictory in its response to this. Something needs to change in the process of planning schools. Dublin South-Central is suffering severely from a lack of options and a lack of places that the Department is not willing to address.

Taoiseach: I thank Deputy Costello for highlighting the issue of school provision in his constituency, that is, the lack of a Gaelcholáiste in Dublin 10 and Dublin 12 and the lack of a non-denominational school in Dublin 8. I will certainly raise these matters and the broader issue he raised about education and school planning with the Minister for Education and ask her to revert to him directly.