Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if stages two, three and four of the building programme for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be progressed in the length of time the school has been within the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30923/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The new eight-classroom building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. My Department's officials are in the process of examining a recently received stage two submission — developed sketch scheme — and when this examination is completed they will be in contact with the school authorities with regard to the next steps involved in progressing the building project.

Projects proceed through the various stages of architectural planning on the basis that they meet the Department's guidelines from educational, architectural and cost perspectives. The stage two submission for the school in question is being considered in this regard. Progression of projects to construction will be considered in the context of the schools building and modernisation programme 2005-2009.