Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications currently in the schools building programme; and the number of applications currently progressing through architectural planning,on a county-by-county basis. [5995/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that 275 major school projects were included in the 5 year programme announced in March 2012. The announcement also included a commitment to publish an annual construction programme. The current status in relation to each of the individual projects on the annual construction programme announcements for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 are available on my Department's website and are updated regularly.

In addition, in June 2013, my Department announced a further 28 additional major projects to proceed to construction under the Investment in Infrastructure and Jobs programme.

I also wish to advise the Deputy that a further 51 projects, in 16 counties, detailed below, are currently progressing through the architectural planning process. They will continue to be progressed up to tender stage so that they will be well placed for progression in anticipation of further funds being available to the Department.

No. of projects County

2 Cavan

1 Clare

1 Cork City

2 Cork County

5 Donegal

13 Dublin Fingal

1 Galway City

5 Galway County

1 Kildare

1 Limerick County

1 Longford

4 Louth

3 Mayo

6 Meath

1 Tipperary

2 Waterford County

1 Westmeath

1 Wicklow