Brendan Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been identified for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and when this project will be built. [41768/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I can confirm that in line with the Memorandum of Understanding, my Department is working closely with Fingal County Council in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for the school referred to by the Deputy.

A potential site option for the school referred to by the Deputy has been identified and my Department is working with officials from Fingal County Council to progress the matter. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally, I am not in a position to provide further details at this time.

As the Deputy will be aware, I recently announced a new programme of capital investment in schools for the period 2016 to 2021. The project for a new building for this school was included in that announcement as one of the projects expected to commence construction in 2018.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the confirmation from her Department that the proposed three-school campus at Buncrana in County Donegal, incorporating new schools for schools (details supplied) in County Donegal, is not scheduled to proceed to construction until between 2019 and 2021; if she is aware the boards of management and parents' committees of these schools are dismayed that their reasonable agreement to pursue a joint three-school campus many years ago has met with delay after delay; and if she is aware of the urgency of this matter considering that the buildings housing all three schools are very much unfit for purpose. [41788/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In the case of the schools referred to by the Deputy I can advise that my Department is working closely with the relevant County Council in relation to identifying and acquiring a suitable site for the schools in question and we continue to liaise with them in advancing this process.

The positioning of school projects on the new programme in terms of year to commence construction is informed by the current stage of progress of each project in each of the constituent years in the new programme. All projects will continue to be progressed with a view to proceeding to tender and construction stages at the earliest possible opportunity. My Department will be in communication with all those schools on the programme in relation to the next steps to be taken, at the appropriate time, as the projects progress through the various stages of the architectural planning process.