Niall Blaney (Donegal North East, IND-FF)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made in regard to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for an extension, taking into account the fact that it was to submit a revised educational worksheet, on which schedules of suggested future use of existing accommodation and residual accommodation considered necessary, to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12821/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The proposed extension project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning and is one of the 124 schools that I announced in April of 2005 to progress through the architectural planning process.

The educational worksheet to which the Deputy refers was returned to my Department in December 2005 and following this a schedule of overall accommodation was completed by a member of my Department's inspectorate. In February of this year my Department's officials visited the school in question and schedules of suggested future use of the existing along with a schedule of residual accommodation were completed.

On the 20 March 2006 a letter issued to the school authorities with the revised schedules requesting them to get their design team to revise the original stage 1 as presented to the Department in October 2001 to reflect the impact of the revised schedules.

When this information is forwarded to my Department, my officials will be in further contact with the school authorities as to the next steps involved in progressing this project.