Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 672: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; when it will be moved to the architectural planning stage; and the stage it will move to subsequently. [22088/05]

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 is at early architectural planning stage 1/2, outline sketch scheme. The stage submission is 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.

The design and planning of a building project is covered by stages 1 to 5, during which the project is developed from the assessment of site suitability, through the detailed design, including the obtaining of planning permission, to the point where detailed bills of quantities are prepared. The project at the school in question will be allowed to progress up to and including stage 5, bill of quantities. This is the final stage before the invitation of tenders.

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.