Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 466: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason she has not included a proposed school (details supplied) in County Dublin in the permanent school building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8415/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The proposed new 24 classroom school referred to by the Deputy was listed in my announcement of 13th January 2006 as a project to progress through architectural planning. The project is currently at an early stage of architectural planning. A Design Team has been appointed on the project. Following a project briefing meeting, the Design Team were instructed to prepare a stage 1, 2 submission (site suitability/sketch scheme).

When the complete stage 1, 2 submission is received in my Department, my Officials will arrange a meeting with the School's 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.