Written answers

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

Department of Education and Skills

Schools Building Projects

Photo of Josepha MadiganJosepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of a new school building, approved in 2012, will commence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28591/16]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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In December 2012, outline planning permission to provide a permanent school building for Ballinteer Educate Together National School was submitted to the relevant local authority but was refused on the grounds of site access. This was appealed by the Department to An Bord Pleanála but subsequently withdrawn to facilitate submission to the local authority of an amended outline planning permission in 2013, which was also refused on similar grounds.

This decision was appealed by this Department to An Bord Pleanála but refused.  However, the Board considered that the matter of assessing alternative means of accessing these lands would benefit from a co-ordinated approach by the Department and the planning authority in the interests of achieving a comprehensive and balanced solution to ongoing access issues on this educational campus.

The Department and the local authority have met to discuss appropriate access routes with a view to a further planning application being submitted as soon as possible.  The Department is also actively in discussion with relevant landowners to advance this process to a satisfactory conclusion.

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