Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the expenditure by his Department on various design teams since the year 2000 on school building projects which have not, to date, gone for construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34257/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Design team fees are paid following the completion of stages as a project works it's way through architectural planning. Given the number of projects involved and the time it takes for each project to progress through the stages of architectural planning incurring fee payments at each stage along the way, the information sought by the Deputy is not readily available and would require an inordinate amount of staff time to assemble.

In general, more than 50% of design team fees on any single project are drawn down in stages before the project actually goes to construction stage. There are currently over 360 major projects progressing through the various stages of architectural planning. Most of these will have incurred fees to design teams in the normal course of that progression but most will not yet have gone on site.