Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1730: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a design team will be appointed for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2985/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that the Department is in receipt of an application for large scale capital funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The project has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale capital projects. Progress on the proposed works is being considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme from 2007 onwards.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1731: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the school authority of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare have been advised on the next steps to initiate the design phase of the new school building; the advise that was offered; and if funding is available for 2007 to commence construction of this project if the architectural planning is completed. [2986/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Representatives of the Board of Management of the school to which the Deputy refers attended an Information Seminar in Tullamore on 13 December hosted by the School Building Section. The steps necessary to initiate the design phase of the eighty building projects announced by me in November were discussed at that meeting and all schools were advised that architectural design teams would be appointed to their projects over the coming months. My School Building Section will begin advertising for these design teams shortly through the public procurement portal, www.etenders.gov.ie.

Progression of all projects to tender and construction will be considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme 2007-2013. Over €4.8 billion will be provided for school building infrastructure under the new NDP 2007-2013.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1732: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the stage three documentation has been received in respect of the new school building project for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if advanced design has been approved; if funding is available in 2007 to commence construction of this project if the architectural planning is completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2987/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The building project for the School referred to by the Deputy was one of the sixty two projects that I announced to start the architectural planning process in January of 2006 and one that I recently announced in November 2006 to proceed to tender and construction. The brief for the project consists of a 16 classroom Generic Repeat Design with an additional bolt-on Special Education Tuition room. A Design Team was appointed on the project in July of this year and the Design Team were instructed to proceed to stage 3 (detailed design with costings) of my Department's Design Team Procedures.

The stage 3 documentation is now awaited and when this is received in my Department, my Officials will, if necessary, arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and their Design Team in order to evaluate the documentation. Once the stage 3 is approved, the new School building project will proceed to tender and construction as mentioned above.