Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 501: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the design team will be in a position to advise her that the project of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been advanced to the point that the project can be offered to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41633/06]

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.

The stage 3 documentation is now awaited and when this is received in my Department, my Officials will, if necessary, arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and their Design Team in order to evaluate the documentation. Once the stage 3 is approved, the new School building project will proceed, in accordance with the School Building and Modernisation Programme 2006-2010, to advanced design and subsequently to tender and construction.

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 502: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if there has been unforeseen delays in regard to the preparatory documentation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41634/06]

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.

The stage 3 documentation is now awaited and when this received in my Department, my Officials will if necessary, arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and their Design Team in order to evaluate the documentation. Once the stage 3 is approved, the new School building project will proceed, in accordance with the School Building and Modernisation Programme 2006-2010, to advanced design and subsequently to tender and construction.