Statement from Chairperson Education Subcommittee

A Public meeting giving information of the permanent build of the Secondary school was held in the Community Centre on Monday 19th October 2009.

Originally the permanent build was to have been delivered to this community in September 2009. This was rescheduled to September 2010.

In an address to the public meeting I raised 2 concerns

1. Why have we missed the deadlines of September 2010?
2. Is the project going to be threatened by Capital expenditure cut backs in the forth coming budget?

At the meeting, the CEO of the VEC Pat O Connor stated that the permanent building of the secondary school would be delivered in Spring 2010. The delay was due to protracted negotiations with Dept of Education and Science and Fingal County Council.

Minister Trevor Sergeant T.D. , Darragh O’Brien T.D. and Michael Kennedy T.D. all gave assurances that the funding was available and that there was no threat to the delivery of this project. The reassurances were further reinforced in a letter from the minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keefe T.D. stating funding had been allocated for this project not be threatened by cutbacks in the forthcoming budget.

The Community Council and its Educational subcommittee will closely monitor this project to ensure that there are no further delays and that the commitments made at our meeting of the 19th October 2009 will be honoured.

The permanent building of the secondary school will be a two storey and triangular building that will accommodate 1000 pupils.

It will include:-
• Five large science rooms (100sq m each);
• Four computer rooms,
• Twenty Seven general class rooms;
• Two lecture rooms;
• Woodwork and technical drawing rooms;
• Music and dance room
• Learning support unit
• Two home economics rooms;
• Religion room;
• Word processing and technology rooms;
• Engineering rooms,
• 14 teacher offices.

• In addition there will be:
• A hockey pitch,
• A sensory garden,
• A cabbage garden
• Six ball Courts

There will be 7,365 sq m of school accommodation in total. The site is 10.2 acres, three of which will be for the Educate Together school new build.

There will also be 200 sq m of changing rooms and showers and 72 car parking spaces.

This is an exciting build and I want to assure you that the community council will provide updates regarding the school on this websites as we receive them. In addition we are monitoring the progress of permanent build for Educate Together,the provision of a library and ancillary services.

David Moore
Chairman Education Subcommittee
Donabate Portrane Community Council

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Traffic delays and power outages : 27th/28th July

Traffic delays and power outages : Tues 27th, Wed 28th July 2010

Residents will have been aware that last week the ESB replaced several electricity poles in the village.

Tomorrow and Wednesday, there will be more traffic delays due to the insulation of poles along the Portrane Rd.

From the village to the Community Centre will be affected Tuesday; Community Centre to Portrane the following day.

There will also be power outages and the ESB will notify households due to be effected.

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