Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 1108: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for a capital grant for additional classrooms for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 which was submitted in January 2002. [1254/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school planning section of my Department does not have an active application for additional classrooms from the school to which the Deputy refers. However, it is understood that an extension comprising classrooms was recently built at the school which is a private, fee-paying facility.

Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 1109: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the long promised and urgently required sports hall for a school (details supplied) in Dundrum will be provided. [1255/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The provision of a PE hall at the school to which the Deputy refers has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria, which were revised following consultation with the education partners. Progress on this project is being considered in the context of the school building programme.

The first phase of the 2005 school building programme was recently announced, providing details of 122 major school building projects which will prepare tenders and move to construction during 2005. This announcement is the first in a series I plan to make in the coming period on the schools building and modernisation programme that will include details of schools identified as suitable for construction under public private partnerships; an expansion of the number of schools that will be invited to deliver their building projects on the basis of devolved funding; details of schools with projects approved under the 2005 summer works scheme; schools whose projects will further progress through the design process; schools that will be authorised to commence architectural planning.