Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the preferred tender for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, to enable construction to commence in 2008. [15364/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A tender report for the school building project referred to by the Deputy has been received in my Department. As part of the Programme for Government, a Developing Areas Unit was set up recently in my Department to focus on the school accommodation needs of rapidly developing areas, including Naas. 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 all schools in Naas is being assessed as part of an overall delivery plan, which is currently being formulated within the Developing Areas Unit. As is the case with all large capital projects currently on hand within the Unit, their progression will be considered in the context of the multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.