Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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We will certainly take up the invitation to visit the Department at Tullamore. Mr. Loftus said that if we looked at all of the bills, we would certainly not choose St. Paul's, which was among the worst-case scenarios with which the Department has had to deal. There were a lot of hiccoughs to get to this point. Hopefully, we are now making progress. Mr. Loftus says the design team will come back by the end of April. I want to push the Department as to when we will get the lease signed, given that the site has been under consideration for more than 15 years. Is there a possibility that the school will now enter the rapid build programme? The Department says that is the best situation for a greenfield site, which this will be. Bearing in mind what everybody has gone through to get to this point, putting it into the rapid scheme would be very helpful.