Written answers

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Department of Education and Skills

Schools Site Acquisitions

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her progress in providing of an Educate Together School in Claregalway, County Galway; if she has identified and acquired a site; if not, her efforts to do so, given her commitment in correspondence dated 25 October 2011 to the Board of Management that the process of identifying a suitable site commenced recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8197/16]

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site (details supplied) currently being purchased in Galway is for a shared campus-style development for primary and post-primary education. [8277/16]

Photo of Seán CanneySeán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made, in terms of site acquisition for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; when is it envisaged that this will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8415/16]

Photo of Hildegarde NaughtonHildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 24 acre site purchased by her Department in Claregalway, County Galway will serve to co-locate, both the new Vocational Educational Committee school, for which a contractor has been appointed and the proposed Educate Together school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8513/16]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 387, 395, 408 and 419 together.

I can confirm to the Deputy that in 2014 my Department acquired 10 acres of land in the Claregalway area to provide for educational purposes. This is in addition to lands acquired in the area by the GRETB (Galway Roscommon Education & Training Board). A project for the school referred to is included in the 6 year construction programme that I announced last November. I can confirm that options regarding the proposed school location are currently being appraised by my Department. Officials within my Department will be in contact with the school authorities in due course.

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