Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 297: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress achieved by her Department towards the delivery of a new post-primary school for the Curragh, County Kildare; if, in consultation with the Department of Defence, her Department has secured a suitable site for the school; the timescale for the delivery of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33626/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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County Kildare Vocational Education Committee, the school authority in this instance, is currently negotiating with the Department of Defence with a view to acquiring a suitable site for the new school. As soon as a site has been acquired progress on the project will be advanced.

Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 298: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the ongoing progress on the delivery of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when the school will commence; the completion date for the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33627/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The building project for the School referred to by the Deputy was one of the sixty two projects that I announced to start the architectural planning process in January of this year. The brief for the project consists of a 16 classroom Generic Repeat Design with an additional bolt-on Special Education Tuition room. A Design Team was appointed on the project in June of this year and following a briefing seminar in my Department's Offices in Tullamore, the Design Team were instructed to proceed to stage 3 (detailed design with costings) of my Department's Design Team Procedures.

When the stage 3 submission is received in my Department, my Officials will arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and the Design Team in order to evaluate the documentation. It is envisaged that unless there are very exceptional circumstances involved, the meeting will be sufficient to authorise the project to progress to the next stages of architectural planning.

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