Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department and Fingal County Council have completed the necessary work to acquire a site for a new primary school (details supplied) in County Dublin as recommended by the Commission on School Accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6070/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware the Programme for Government includes a commitment to establish a Developing Areas Unit in my Department, dedicated solely to progressing school planning in rapidly developing areas, building on improvements that have already been made in recent years. This Developing Areas Unit, in conjunction with Fingal County Council has been working to identify and acquire sites, under the Fingal School Model, for rapidly growing areas, including the area to which the Deputy refers. A permanent site for the school to which the Deputy refers will be identified by Fingal County Council as part of the relevant Local Area Plan.

In the interim, a temporary site has been identified to provide, subject to the conclusion of legalities and receipt of planning permission, accommodation for the school in question for September 2008. A planning application in this regard was lodged in January 2008.