John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the stage the plans are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26287/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The project referred to by the Deputy has been devolved for delivery to Kildare and Wicklow Education & Training Board (KWETB).

I understand from KWETB that procurement of the Design Team for the project will be completed by the end of July 2019. The Design Team will then take the project through the various stages of architectural planning and onwards through the statutory planning requirements and construction.

John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of replacing the existing prefabs in a school (details supplied) with a permanent two storey building; the stage the plans are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26288/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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A building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is included in my Department’s Construction Programme which is being delivered under the National Development Plan.

A tender exercise to establish a Project Manager framework was concluded on 10th April 2019. A tender competition to the newly established framework to appoint a Project Manager for the programme through which this project is being delivered will conclude shortly.

A project brief has been finalised and the scope of this project is to provide a stand-alone extension to the existing post primary school in order to increase capacity of the school to a long term projected enrolment of 850 pupils.