Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 194: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow for a site and building works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36362/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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1My Department has sought the assistance of the Local Authority in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for the provision of permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy. Once a suitable site has been identified and acquired, the proposed building project will be considered in the context of the capital budget available to my Department for school buildings generally.

Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the application he currently has for accommodation works in respect of primary and post-primary schools in County Wicklow and County Carlow. [36363/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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1The current status of all projects on the school building programme, including those in Counties Carlow and Wicklow, may be viewed on my Department's website at www.education.ie and this will be updated regularly throughout the year. For the Deputy's convenience, however, I am attaching details of the 55 applications for building works from schools in the Counties in question that are on hand.

The Government's Medium Term Infrastructure and Capital Investment Framework, which was published on 10th November 2011, sets out the demographic challenge facing the education system in the coming years. In conjunction with this, I indicated that I will publish details next month of the school building projects to be constructed in 2012.