Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 25: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends that the Grangegorman development authority be able to begin its work in 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2965/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Dáil Select Committee on Education and Science concluded Committee Stage of the Grangegorman Development Agency Bill on 16 December 2004.

The purpose of this Bill is to establish an agency whose function, in the first instance, is to prepare a strategic planning scheme for the Grangegorman site. The plan must provide for the needs of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Health Service Executive, the Ministers for Education and Science and Health and Children. The Bill provides for wide-ranging consultation with all the parties who may have an involvement in the site. This ranges from those who are directly concerned — local residents, DIT and the Dublin City Council — to those parties whose future involvement may have a bearing on the site reaching its full potential such as the IDA and Dublin Bus.

It is my intention, once the necessary legislative framework is in place, to establish the agency as soon as possible thereafter so that it can commence carrying out the functions given to it in the legislation.