Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the purchase of a school building site for Monkstown Educate Together school. [16564/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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The school is currently accommodated in prefabricated classrooms on a site adjoining Monkstown community centre. The cost of site and portacabin rental is grant aided by the Department at the rate of 95%.

The property management section of the Office of Public Works, which purchases sites for schools on behalf of my Department, is actively pursuing the identification and acquisition of a suitable site for the Monkstown Educate Together national school. My Department intends to secure a site for the school as soon as possible. When this has been done, the question of the architectural planning of a new school building will be examined as a matter of urgency. In the meantime, however, my Department will continue to grant aid the use of temporary accommodation by the school at a rate of 95% of the cost pending the delivery of permanent accommodation.