Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 942: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the stage 1 and 2 submission in relation to the building of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she has sanctioned the advancement of the project to stage 3. [15215/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The building project for the School 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.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 943: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the stage 1 and 2 submission in relation to the building of the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she has sanctioned the advancement of the project to stage 3. [15220/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A Design Team was appointed for the school project 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 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.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 944: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the stage 3 submission in relation to the building of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she has sanctioned the further advancement of the project. [15221/07]

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 in January of 2006 to start the architectural planning process and to proceed to tender and construction as per my announcement of November 2006. The brief for the project consists of a 16 classroom Generic Repeat Design building with an additional bolt-on Special Education Tuition room. A Design Team was appointed on the project in July of last 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, to advanced design and subsequently to tender and construction.