Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 270: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a two-stream arrangement at a school (details supplied) will no longer be sufficient by September 2008 in view of the fact that this school is in a location that has a consistent and rapid population growth and that there will be insufficient space for health and safety reasons to install more prefabs in addition to those already in place; her further views on whether there is a need to move this school from band 2 to band 1 in order that provision can occur in an orderly way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39898/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application for major capital funding has been received from the school authority to which the Deputy refers.

On foot of an assessment of this application, it has been determined that the school requires to be developed into a 24 classroom facility (a 3 stream school) with appropriate ancillary accommodation. This has been agreed with the school authority.

The project has also been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects and it has been assigned a Band 2 rating. Progress on the project is being considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme from 2007 onwards.