Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will complete the building of a new national school at Ballygarvan, County Cork; if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowded conditions in the existing school; if she will explain what is impeding progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30778/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A suitable site was identified for the construction of a new primary school building in the area referred to by the Deputy. The site comprises three separate plots of land with three separate vendors. As all three plots are essential in order to make a viable and suitable site for the school, my Department has instructed the Chief State Solicitor's Office to finalise all outstanding matters and arrange for the signing of Contracts and closure of the sales of all three sites simultaneously. As soon as the Chief State Solicitor's Office notifies my officials that all three Contracts are ready to be signed, they will be signed without delay.

When the site is in the ownership of my Department, a building project for the school will be considered for progression in the context of my Department's School Building and Modernisation Programme.