Written answers

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Department of Education and Skills

Schools Building Projects Status

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if capital expenditure is now planned for the building project for a school (details supplied); if work will take place in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23406/18]

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the architect previously working on the replacement school project for a school (details supplied) was directly employed by his Department or contracted in for a specified project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23407/18]

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the previous architect for a building project at a school (details supplied) was not replaced when they left in July 2017; the reason for delays in appointing a replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23408/18]

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 22 November 2017, the reason there was no reference to difficulty with sourcing and hiring architects for a school (details supplied) in relation to this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23409/18]

Photo of Brendan  RyanBrendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are no architects immediately available with his Department to take on the work of the final sign off to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23410/18]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 247 to 251, inclusive, together.

The process to replace the consultant architect and design team leader for the major school building project referred to by the Deputy is currently ongoing.

The Invitation to Tender for the replacement architect issued on 11thMay 2018. The closing date for receipt of applications is 28 May 2018. It is anticipated that the replacement architect will be appointed in July 2018.

On appointment the replacement architect, as Design Team Leader, will need to carry out a thorough review, audit and update of the submitted Stage 2(b) documentation in order to satisfy themselves that the major building project is correctly designed, detailed and accurately costed.

Following this review the replacement architect will issue a report to the Board of Management for onward transmission to the Department. Upon review of this report My Department will be in contact with the school with a timeline in relation to the further progression of this project.

The “in-house” Department Architect who was working on this project had outsourced the preparation of the architectural documentation for the Stage 2(b) submission to an external consultant and he would have taken the project forward to tender and construction stages had he not resigned. As he has not yet been replaced the need to tender for an external consultant has arisen.

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