Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 9 December 2014 if she will confirm that the tender process to appoint the design team to complete the design of the extension and refurbishment works required in a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been completed; if a successful tenderer has been appointed and an approximate date for the completion of the design; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17727/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The project referred to by the Deputy is currently completing the Design Team appointment stage. The Tender competition for the Design Team appointment has concluded and the Board of Management have finalised the assessment of the tenders received. Letters of Intent and feedback letters have recently issued to all Tenderers and subject to no issues arising the formal appointment of the Design Team will be completed in the coming weeks.

The project will provide for refurbishment of the listed building on site and extension to provide overall accommodation for a 16 classroom school. My Department has already secured planning permission for the project using in-house Architectural resources. Once appointed the design team will work on the basis established under that planning permission to bring this project through the remaining stages of the architectural planning process.