A SURVEY of parents and students about a Kerry school’s all-Irish policy due to have been carried out in the last month has still not started, it emerged yesterday.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin has intervened in the bitter row over the policy under which subjects are taught through Irish in a new school in Dingle, Co Kerry.

IN an unusual reversal of roles, the Department of Education has asked Educate Together to open a multi- denominational school — at short notice — in a fast-growing part of north Co Dublin.

DEPARTMENT of Education projections show that up to one-fifth of all new school places will have to be provided in the expanding commuter belt in north Dublin and parts of Meath and Louth.

A NUMBER of new schools and upgrades to existing schools in north Kerry are recommended in a major Department of Education plan published yesterday.

THE Department of Education will provide temporary accommodation for schools enrolling new pupils during the school year in a growing Kildare town but parents must notify schools in advance of their arrival, Education Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday.

THE Government’s failure to plan education facilities has left more than half the children in west Dublin schools in some of the country’s most overcrowded classes, the Labour Party has claimed.

SCHOOLS and parents are being forced to raise millions of euro to meet Government shortfalls for building projects, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has claimed.