Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 243: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has in his Department possession of an original lease (details supplied) relevant to a property; and if he will make the said document available to this Deputy. [42969/08]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department will convey any interest it may have in an old national school to a committee (details supplied) in County Mayo. [42970/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 244 together.

My Department has a copy of a 99 year lease with the landowner in relation to the school in question. The Deputy will be aware that a lease is a document between the Landowners, the Trustees and me as Minister for Education and Science. I am advised that it is not general practice to release copies of same. The Deputy will be also be aware that my Department has received correspondence on the matter from solicitors acting on behalf of a committee, as distinct from the Trustees of the school, to establish a playschool on the existing premises. This correspondence is under active consideration by officials in my Department. My officials will revert to the Solicitors in due course.