Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 300: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of the application for a new school building by a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan which is a progressive growing school; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this application is with her Department since 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33629/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has received an application for capital funding towards the provision of a new building for the school referred to by the Deputy. My officials are in the process of assessing the school's long term projected staffing in order to determine the school's accommodation needs into the future. Factors to be considered include current and projected enrolment, demographic trends in the area, and the likely impact of recent and proposed housing developments. Once this assessment has been completed the building project required will be considered in the context of the 2006-2010 School Building and Modernisation Programme.