Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to locate a school (details supplied) on the site currently in the process of the completion of the conveyancing process for another school; his plans to acquire a different site for the new national school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47052/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that agreement in principle has been reached in respect of the potential acquisition of a site for permanent accommodation to meet the needs of the two schools to which the Deputy refers. The conveyancing process is currently advancing and officials in my Department are liaising with the vendor in order to progress the acquisition.

Furthermore, my Department is included among the prescribed bodies to whom local authorities are statutorily obliged to send draft development and local area plans or proposed variations to development plans for comment and observations. This enables local authorities to reserve future school sites in areas designated for proposed housing development.

In the context of the development of the Celbridge LAP by Kildare County Council, based on analysis of relevant data, my Department requested that further sites be reserved to serve potential additional future school needs.