Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the Grangegorman project has not progressed to the stage of procurement since the Government took its decision to support this project three years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12554/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In December 1999 the Government decided that the Department of Education and Science would purchase 65 acres of the 73-acre Grangegorman site from the Eastern Health Board, and that the site would house the new Dublin Institute of Technology community campus. An interdepartmental working group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, was set up in May 2001 to examine the project. In July 2001, consultants were appointed to carry out a strategic review of the issues associated with the development of the Grangegorman site on behalf of the working group. One of the main recommendations of the consultants was that an agency be established to develop the site as a campus for health and education facilities. The legislation for the establishment of the Grangegorman Development Agency completed Committee Stage last December. It is expected that the Report Stage will be before the House in the near future.