Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 921: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which the project for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be progressed, in view of the fact that the school has sought capital funding and the project has not appeared to progress. [15536/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school planning section of my Department has received an application for major capital funding from the management authority of the school to which the Deputy refers. My officials wrote to the school authority on 10 April last requesting its agreement to the long-term projected enrolment for the school. Progress on the proposed works can be considered when agreement in this regard is secured.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 922: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the contractor for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare has accepted the letter of intent for the contract; if a formal letter of offer has issued; if contracts have been signed for the project; the details of same including cost and building timeframe. [15537/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The formal letter of offer has not yet issued and consequently the contract has not yet been signed. Once the project goes on site it is estimated that it will take 12 to 15 months to complete.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 923: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it was her visit to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare which led to the project finally getting clearance of the stage three submission, or if it was cleared in the normal fashion within her Department. [15538/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the school in question was authorised to proceed to stages 4-5 — planning permission-fire certification, bill of quantities-tender documentation — of architectural planning on 14 March 2006 following a review of their revised stage 3 documentation which, subject to a number of issues being addressed in the next stage submission, was sufficiently complete to allow the project proceed.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 924: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when it is likely that the stage two submission regarding the required phase 2 extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be examined with a view to progressing the project. [15539/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. My Department's officials have recently reviewed the stage 2 documentation. An on-site meeting has been organised for early May with the school authorities and their design team to evaluate this submission.