Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects that the technical inspection into the proposal for the amalgamation of the primary schools at Lixnaw, County Kerry will be carried out. [6676/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Before progressing the application for the proposed amalgamation project further and in order to ensure that any capital funding allocated to assist in the amalgamation being provided represents optimal use of resources and is appropriate to meet the school's long term accommodation needs it will be necessary to give consideration to the possibility of using any of the existing buildings before pursuing a greenfield site for a new build project.

The Department, upon request, has recently received further technical documentation in relation to the school buildings from the schools. The next step is to carry out a technical investigation of the existing buildings to determine their suitability. When this inspection has been completed the project will be progressed in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme.