Dinny McGinley (Donegal South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 203: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to provide a new national school to replace St. Columba's national school, Kilmacrennan, County Donegal; the stage the said new school is at; when it is likely that a contract will be placed and building will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16384/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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A large-scale building project for Scoil Naomh Colmcille, Kilmacrennan, County Donegal, is listed in section 9 of the 2004 school building programme which is published on my Department's website at www.education.ie. This project is at early stages of architectural planning. It has been assigned a band 2 rating by my Department in accordance with the published criteria for prioritising large-scale projects. It is planned to progress this project to the next stage of architectural planning during 2004.

The budget announcement regarding multi-annual capital envelopes will enable me to adopt a multi-annual framework for the school building programme, which in turn will give greater clarity regarding projects that are not progressing to tender in this year's programme. I will make a further announcement in that regard during the year.