Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the current site of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin which currently consists of temporary buildings, is in fact the long term permanent site for this school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52435/12]

Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate a timeframe for when permanent buildings will be constructed on the site of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if it is included in current building programmes; if there is any application for permanent buildings with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52436/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 294 and 295 together.

I can confirm that the school referred to by the Deputy has made an application to my Department for capital funding for school accommodation. I can also confirm that my Department is in the process of acquiring the site on which the school is currently located together with some additional adjoining land as the permanent site for the school. It is the Department's intention to fully develop the entire site and to add an extension to the existing permanent school building, provided by my Department in 2008, to meet the school's long term accommodation needs.

To that end, an extension project for the school was included as part of the 5 year Capital Investment Programme announced earlier this year. The project is being progressed through the architectural planning process and is intended to proceed to construction in 2015/16.

I am aware that Department officials recently met with the Board of Management of the school in relation to the project.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected enrolling figures used by his Department for prioritisation on the capital schools building programme in relation to a school (details supplied) for the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52463/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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A new school on a new site is planned for the school to which the Deputy refers and the Department is currently in the process of acquiring the site. A review of the final project brief is now being undertaken. Following that, the project will be progressed through Architectural Planning in the context of the available funding.

As enrolment increases are not uniformly distributed nationally, my Department has carried out a study of the country including the area referred to by the Deputy, using data from the Central Statistics Office, the General Register Office and the Department of Social Protection in addition to recent schools' enrolment data to identify the areas it is projected that there will be significant future enrolment increases. The information used is the most accurate and up-to-date information available. The area to which the Deputy refers is serviced by sixteen primary schools. Based on an analysis of the data referred to above, primary level enrolments for this area look set to remain relatively stable up to 2018.

Due to competing demands on the Departments capital budget imposed by the need to prioritise the limited funding available for the provision of additional school accommodation to meet increasing demographic requirements, it was not possible to include this project in the 5 year construction programme announced in March.