Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the three acre site assigned for the new school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which the Office of Public Works was negotiating to purchase from the Health Service Executive has been purchased by the local authority; the alternative plans he has to provide for a new building for this 200 pupil school which has been renting an 1830 sub-standard premises since 1994 at an enormous cost to the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26099/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the Office of Public Works (OPW), which acts on behalf of my Department in relation to site acquisitions generally, has been asked to source a suitable site for the school in question. My Department is advised that the Health Service Executive (HSE) have formally conveyed its approval to dispose of lands either to South Tipperary County Council or directly to the OPW. While negotiations between the OPW and the HSE are currently underway I am not in a position to say at this stage when the acquisition will be concluded.