Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party)
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923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans on building and opening a secondary school in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21232/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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A new 1,000 pupil post-primary school is scheduled to open in 2016 in the area referred to by the Deputy.

Patronage of this school was awarded to Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education & Training Board and it will be a multi-denominational, co-educational non-designated community college.

The Design Team on the project for the school, has recently completed stage 2(a) and has been authorised to progress to Stage 2(b), which includes the application for planning permission and other statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents. Following the completion of stage 2(b) the project will then be authorised to proceed to tender and construction stages.

The project is included in my Department's five year building programme to proceed to Tender and Construction in 2015/16. The intended start-date for the school's first intake of pupils is the commencement of the school year 2016/17.