Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when permanent buildings will be provided for schools (details supplied). [54173/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The major building project for the schools referred to by the Deputy is currently at an advanced stage of architectural planning Stage 2b (Detailed Design), which includes the application for statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents.

The pre-qualification process to select a shortlist of suitable contractors for tender stage is currently ongoing.

The Design Team is currently assessing the expressions of interest. A pre-qualification report will be compiled and forwarded to the Department once this exercise is complete.

Once the pre-qualification process is complete the Department will be in contact with the Board of Management with a view to progressing this project to tender stage.

A tender stage normally takes between 7 and 8 months to complete.

Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new accommodation for a school (details supplied). [54174/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The delivery of a new 5 classroom school with a 2 classroom ASD unit is being devolved to Louth Meath Education and Training Board.

To enable this, my Department is currently preparing a Service Level Agreement for issue to the ETB. The execution of this Service Level Agreement will allow the ETB to procure a Design Team to take the project through the various stages of architectural planning and onwards through the process of meeting statutory planning requirements and to construction.