Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1235: 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. [25561/05]

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 works have commenced on site.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made to progress an application for major capital funding which has been assessed by her Department regarding a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when same will be advanced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25562/05]

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 management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. The application has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale projects. Progress on the proposed works is being considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme from 2006 onwards