Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 436: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be given the go ahead for extra accommodation; if officials from the school planning section have made contact with the school authority to arrange a technical visit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27045/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application for capital funding towards the provision of an extension has been received from the school and has been assessed and the long term projected staffing, on which the accommodation needs will be based, has been determined and notified to the school authority. In order to determine how best to provide for the school's accommodation needs into the future, it will be necessary to have a technical assessment of existing buildings carried out. Having regard to the existing and competing demands on the building programme, my Department has not been in a position to arrange for a visit. However, it is intended that a visit will be arranged in the coming months.

In the interim, pending a permanent solution to the school's accommodation requirements the school has recently been given approval to rent a prefabricated classroom and resource room from September 2006.