Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the provision of a further education college facility for Monaghan town; if it will be included in her next capital development list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7752/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Monaghan Institute of Further Education and Training currently provides 169 PLC places. The college has applied for capital funding and this application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for inclusion in the school buildings and modernisation programme. It has been agreed that the long-term accommodation needs of the college will be met by way of a new school building and a schedule of accommodation has been agreed with the vocational education committee.

I have made a number of announcements relating to the 2005 school building programme which included details of 122 major school building projects that will move to tender and construction over the next 12 — 15 months and 43 school projects which are being authorised to proceed to architectural planning immediately. I will make further announcements on projects which will progress, on a phased basis, into the architectural planning process in the next 12 to 15 months to ensure that there is a steady flow of projects ready to progress to the next point in the building process. The proposed project for the Further Education College in Monaghan, will be considered in this regard.