Griffeen Valley Educate Together national school is a new school which was established in the Lucan area in September 2002. The school is located in the temporary accommodation recently vacated by Lucan Educate Together national school. As the Senator is aware, at the Department's request the local authority reserved a site in the Griffeen Valley area for primary school purposes. The property management section of the Office of Public Works has agreed a price with the site owners and negotiations to acquire it to accommodate a permanent school building for Griffeen Valley Educate Together national school are at an advanced stage. A competition for the design and build of a 16 classroom school on this site has already taken place. Tenders resulting from this competition process are being evaluated and the school management authorities will be advised of developments. The targeted date by which the new building will be in place is September 2004.