Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 431: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ensure that where the State builds a new school on land which it owns, the building will be in the ownership of his Department. [18363/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware the Programme for Government commits my Department to ensure that where the State builds a new school on land which it owns, the building will be in the ownership of the Department of Education.

Those sites that are acquired by my Department for the purposes of providing permanent accommodation for schools are generally green-field sites and the school buildings provided thereon remain in the ownership of the Minister or the relevant VEC. In the case of PPP projects the Minister also retains ownership of both the site and school building.