Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the PPP schools announced in 2005 will be offered to market; the number of bundles these schools will be offered in; when it is expected to award contracts in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13362/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Twenty-three new post-primary schools and four primary schools will be delivered under my Department's new public private partnership programme, PPP.

While the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, has responsibility for the procurement of the projects, timing and the grouping of projects into bundles will be determined by my Department in consultation the NDFA.

The first project bundle consists of St. Mary's CBS and Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise, St. Rynagh's Community College, Banagher and Gallen Community School, Ferbane. Work on this project bundle is ongoing in my Department and as I previously stated will be offered to the market in the middle of this year. I will be announcing further project bundles during the year.