Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) and the plans for temporary accommodation for the 2018-19 school year. [29237/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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This project is being delivered under my Department’s “Rapid” Design & Build programme.  The brief for the project is to provide a new 24 classroom primary school with a 3 classroom Special Needs Unit on a green field site at Carr’s Hill, Douglas, to the south west side of Carrigaline Road, Maryborough, Co. Cork. 

An application for planning permission was lodged on 28 May 2018. 

The project is expected to proceed to tender in Quarter 3 2018.  It is anticipated that construction will begin in early 2019 with delivery anticipated by the end of Quarter 1 2020. 

The project for additional temporary accommodation for the school for September 2018 has been devolved to the patron body Educate Together. The Patron body appointed a consultant engineer in February 2018, to assist with the delivery of this accommodation.

Planning permission to consolidate the school in a single 12 classroom unit on the Garryduff Sports Centre site was sought from Cork county Council on 21 March 2018.  Full Planning permission was granted on 14 June 2018. 

To expedite the project my Department gave sanction to the patron body to run the tender process for the provision of the temporary accommodation required in tandem with the planning application. A contract for this provision was awarded in May 2018 (subject to planning permission).

Site works have commenced on the Garryduff site and it is anticipated that the accommodation will be delivered in time for the new academic year in September 2018.