Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 800: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to provision of an extension at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20071/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I have included the building project for the school in question in my recently announced list of school projects to be progressed through architectural planning in 2005. The building project for the school in question is at an early stage of architectural planning. The stage 3 submission — detailed plans and costs — is with my Department and will be assessed by staff in due course. When the analysis is complete, the school building section will contact the school authorities. A decision on which school building projects will advance to tender and construction as part of the 2006 schools building and modernisation programme will be taken later in the year.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 801: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when works will commence at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20072/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is moving towards a model of devolving the responsibility for building projects to school management authorities where appropriate. The devolving of funding to local level will accommodate school authorities to have responsibility and ownership of their building projects and assist in moving projects in a specific timeframe through the design process, to tender action and construction. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that County Kildare VEC. has been allocated a grant under the 2005 summer works scheme in respect of conversion works at the college in question and I understand that tender documentation is being prepared.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 802: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made regarding an application for a major refurbishment project at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20073/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school planning section of my Department is in receipt of an application for major capital funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects which were revised following consultation with the education partners last year. Progress on the application is being considered in the context of the school building programme from 2005 onwards.