Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 506: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious structural deficiencies in a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if she has received a request for sanction for a programme of reconstruction for the school; if she will sanction the project in view of the conditions that pupils and staff have to endure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6541/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A tender report for a new school building for the school referred to by the Deputy has been received in my Department. The progression of all large scale building projects from initial design stage through to construction phase is considered on an on-going basis in the context of my Department's Multi-Annual School Building and Modernisation Programme in which the main focus is to deliver school places within rapidly developing areas. The progression of all school building projects will be considered in this context. I announced recently a list of schools which are due to go to construction in 2008. I intend to make further announcements regarding projects that will be proceeding to construction during the course of the year as the school building programme is rolled out.