Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 270: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to meet the urgent and well documented requirements in respect of permanent accommodation and other facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11037/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The permanent School Building project referred to by the Deputy is at early stage of architectural planning. My Department wrote to the Design Team on the project on the 20th September 2006 requesting a stage 1/2 submission (Outline sketch scheme with costings) and this submission is expected in my Department by the end of April this year.

When this stage 1/2 submission is received in my Department, my Officials will arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and their 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. Progression of all projects to tender and construction will be considered in the context of my Department's multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 271: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to meet the urgent and well documented requirements in respect of permanent accommodation and other facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11038/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A Design Team was appointed on the School referred to by the Deputy on the 28th November last and the School Authorities were instructed to inform their Design Team to prepare a stage 1/2 submission (Outline sketch scheme with costings).

The stage 1/2 documentation is now awaited and when this is received in my Department, my Officials will arrange a meeting with the School Authorities and their 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. Progression of all projects to tender and construction will be considered in the context of my Department's multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.