Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 611: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the name, address and roll number of every primary school that is waiting for a visit from design or technical teams in order that its application for school improvements can be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35776/08]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 612: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the name, address and roll number of every primary school that had, in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007, a visit from a design or technical team in connection with its school improvement application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35777/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 611 and 612 together.

As part of any application for major capital works, my Department assesses the long term projected enrolment of a school. Where a project is being considered for imminent inclusion on the School Building and Modernisation programme, a site visit is often organised in order to inform the final brief for the project and to determine the capacity of the site for the required works and the configuration which those works might take on the site.

Currently there are over 360 major projects in architectural planning. Normal procedure is to organise a site visit as part of this process. The details of these visits and the reports generated from them are held on individual project files in my Department.

In addition, there are over 1000 applications on hand in my Department for major capital works. Most of these will also require site visits at the appropriate time before they can be included in the School Building and Modernisation programme.

Given the number of projects involved it would require an inordinate amount of staff time to assemble the requested information. However, if the Deputy wishes to clarify the situation in respect of individual cases then I would be happy to provide him with the information.