Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the updated cost benefit analysis and financial robustment element of the tender process for the Maynooth Education Campus, Maynooth, County Kildare has been completed; if approval of the issue of the letter of intent has issued to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, the conditions required of the letter of intent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10628/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I am pleased to be able to inform the Deputy that all aspects of the tendering process for the Maynooth Education campus project have been satisfactorily completed and my Department gave approval to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board on 27th February last to issue a Letter of Intent to award a contract to the preferred bidder. 

The conditions contained in the Letter of Intent relate to the usual proofs required from a Contractor in relation Tax Clearance, Insurances, Bond etc. Assuming that the preferred bidder can comply with these requirements, my Department would expect the project to be on site in a few months’ time.

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the supplementary tender report regarding a school (details supplied); if final approval has now issued to sign contracts for construction of the new school; when construction will commence; the construction timetable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10629/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The school to which the Deputy refers is at an advanced stage of the tender process. The School was authorised to issue a Letter of Intent to the preferred tenderer on 17^thJanuary 2017. The completed supplementary tender report is expected in my Department in early March and subject to no issues arising it is anticipated that construction will commence in the second quarter of 2017. The project is scheduled to take 24 months to complete.