Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 582: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she could clarify her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 3 May 2006, as this school (details supplied) is in fact a stand alone school and not part of an amalgamation of any kind; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that they are at the architectural planning stage; the reason same is not progressing; when it can go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20877/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to clarify that officials in my Department had, in error, understood the initial question to relate to the most recent developments in mainstream post primary education provision in the Charleville area as distinct from the provision of special education facilities in a special school in the same town.

The proposed new school building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is in fact 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.

My Department's officials are in receipt of a stage 2 submission (developed sketch scheme) and this has been examined by both my Department's Technical staff and the Inspectorate. Following the review of the stage 2 submission, my Department wrote to the School Authorities on the 23rd May 2006 and outlined a number of issues that will need addressing and which will form the basis of a Design Team meeting which will take place in my Department's offices in Tullamore on 14th June 2006.

Progression of this project to tender and construction will be considered in the context of the Schools Building and Modernisation Programme 2006-2010.