A CORK school has been forced to inform parents that their children will have no place in the local school next year. Parents living in the Ballygarvan area have been informed that the local Ballygarvan National School is currently at capacity and will be unable to accept all pupils next September as a result.

This is despite the fact that the school was promised a new school building ten years ago to cater for the growing population in the area.

The news coincides with a decision by Cork County Council to grant permission to a development in the area which includes 140 residential units.

Cork TD Deirdre Clune is now calling on the Minister for Education, Batt O´Keeffe TD, to act now to avert a crisis at the school. "We are now witnessing the effects of this Government´s bad planning. Large housing estates built with no regard to the need for school extensions that would inevitably be needed. Ballygarvan NS has now been forced to tell local parents that there are no school places for their children next September. The new school promised 10 years ago has still not been built and the school can not fit another prefab on its already overcrowded grounds," she said.

Concluding she added, "The Minister for Education alone can resolve this problem and save devastated parents from the crisis they now face."

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