Naas infants 'will be pensioners' before they get to school

NAAS 30 January 2003: The proposed new school in Naas in the Sallins Road/Monread area is unlikely to see pupils crossing its threshold for a year or two yet. The project will be tied up in a mesh of approvals before any stone is laid on a foundation.

According to the Department of Education, the school project has been approved to go to a pre-tender stage, where the tender documentation is drawn up. But the documentation has then to be aproved by the project team as well as by the Department of Finance and the Department of Education.

Following that process, the project will still require a further approval to go to tender. This will be followed by a tender analysis, then a tender report submission which also has to be approved.

Approvals will subsequently required for the issue of a contract and contract placement.

One Naas parent said, on hearing the news, that Naas is 'fast heading towards low infants for pensioners', as the school entry age has once again been raised.

Story by Brian Byrne

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