Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 459: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans for the provision of a new school as a replacement for the inadequate accommodation at present at a school (details supplied) in County Galway which is in a deplorable condition and overcrowded; and when his Department will make a decision on the matter. [17871/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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An application for capital funding towards the provision of accommodation has been received from the authority of the school referred to by the Deputy. An assessment of the projected enrolment trends, demographic trends and the housing developments in the area will be required to determine the long term projected staffing figure on which the school's accommodation needs will be based. The proposed building project will be considered on an ongoing basis in the context of my Department's multi-annual School Building and Modernisation Programme.

In view of the large number of projects already at various stages of architectural planning, it is not possible at this stage to say when construction will commence on the project referred to by the Deputy.