Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 578: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of times compulsory purchase orders have been used in the past 20 years to acquire sites for national schools and the details of same. [32489/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is not legally in a position to acquire sites for schools by way of compulsory purchase orders. The use of such orders is a matter for local authorities. It may have been the case that some sites purchased by my Department from local authorities were part of larger blocks of land previously acquired by these authorities through compulsory purchase orders. My Department would not necessarily be aware of this.