Written answers

Tuesday, 21 February 2006

Department of Education and Science

School Accommodation

9:00 pm

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 623: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of providing new and permanent facilities for schools (details supplied); and if the Dublin 7 Educate Together national school will have facilities beyond summer 2006. [6902/06]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The schools referred to by the Deputy are currently in temporary accommodation, which is grant aided by my Department. My Department acknowledges the need for a long-term solution to both schools' accommodation difficulties and is committed to working to achieve a satisfactory solution as soon as possible. Officials in school planning section are considering a number of options to meet both schools' requirements for the long term. Among the options being considered is the possibility of securing a greenfield site for one of the schools. Our agents in this regard, the Office of Public Works, will pursue this in tandem with a number of other options being considered by the Department.

Officials in the school planning section of my Department have been informed by Dublin 7 Educate Together national school that it must vacate its existing accommodation by the end of June 2006. My Department is actively seeking suitable alternative accommodation for the school, beyond June 2006.

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