Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5075/16]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of Architectural Planning, Stage 2B Detailed Design Stage. All statutory approvals have been secured.

A brief change request, from the Board of Management of the school in question, to use an adjoining site to fully decant the school during construction was approved by the Department on 15th September 2015. The Board and its design team were authorised to secure planning permission, fire cert and DAC for the temporary decant accommodation in parallel with the pre-qualification of contractors for the main project. The planning application for temporary accommodation was lodged with the relevant local authority on 22nd December 2015 and planning permission was granted on 24th February 2016. The Department has been informed that the design team are currently working on the DAC and Fire Cert applications for the temporary decant building and these applications are scheduled to be lodged with the Local Authority by the end of March 2016.

The stage 2(b) cost plan and tender documentation have to be updated by the design team to reflect the brief change and the revised decant costs and resubmitted to the Department for review once the statutory approvals have been secured.