Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the release to tender for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the number of primary school extensions and new buildings in this category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20719/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that 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 is at an advanced stage of architectural planning stage 4/5, detail design-bill of quantities. The stage submission is currently with the Department and will be assessed by the Department's staff in due course. When this analysis is complete the school building section will be in contact with 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.

Some 73 primary schools with major building projects including the school in question were authorised to progress though architectural planning during 2005. In addition 32 primary schools got approval to commence architectural planning while a further 89 schools were allowed to move to tender and construction.