Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department approached the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in 2007 seeking their agreement to provide eight additional classrooms; and the reason a design team has not been sanctioned for the project. [12641/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application for major capital works was received from the school referred to by the Deputy. The Department has agreed the expansion of this school to a 24-classroom school with the school authorities.

As the Deputy may be aware a Developing Areas Unit was set up recently in my Department to focus on the school accommodation needs of rapidly developing areas including the area to which the Deputy refers. The main emphasis in 2008 is on providing sufficient school places in these developing areas, as well as delivering improvements in the quality of existing primary and post-primary school accommodation throughout the country.

In this context, the status of this project is currently being assessed. As is the case of all large capital projects currently on hand within the Developing Areas Unit, progression of the project will be considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation programme.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 13 March 2008, the breakdown of the first year intake of 31 pupils between schools (details supplied) in County Kildare; and the same breakdown of the 72 pupils from Kildare who attended sixth class in each of the schools in 2006/2007. [12642/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested by the Deputy will be forwarded directly to the Deputy's Office as soon as possible.