Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans for the delivery of a school (details supplied) can be expedited given the pressing need for additional school places in Rush, County Dublin. [35272/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The delivery of a building project for St. Joseph’s Secondary School and Gaelscoil Ros Eo, Rush, Co. Dublin is a priority for my Department.

The brief for this project is to provide, on a greenfield site at Kenure, Rush, Co. Dublin, the following:

- a 16 classroom Primary School with 1 SEN Base for Gaelscoil Ros Eo which also includes a library, a General Purpose Room, 3 SET rooms, office accommodation and other ancillary accommodation

- a 1,000 pupil Post Primary School with 4 class SEN Base for St. Joseph’s School, including 37 general classrooms, 6 science labs, 4 Art&Craft/Home Economics Rooms, 4 Technology/Engineering Rooms, 6 other specialist rooms, a Library, a General Purpose Room, office accommodation and other ancillary accommodation

St Joseph’s Secondary School is a co-educational (under catholic ethos) post-primary school in Rush, Co. Dublin. The school is under the patronage of CEIST. The school is currently located in Convent Lane, Rush, Co. Dublin. The schools current enrolment is 842 (373 Girls and 469 boys)

Gaelscoil Ros Eo is a co-educational multi-denominational Irish medium primary school taught in the Irish medium. The schools current enrolment is 210 (106 girls and 104 boys)

The project has been devolved for delivery to CEIST, which is the patron body for St. Joseph’s Secondary School.

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) between CEIST and the Department has been executed. I am pleased to inform the Deputy of the recent appointment of a design team for the project in that respect.

It is now a matter for CEIST to progress this project. Its Design Team will now design the building, obtain the necessary statutory planning permission, and move the project onward to construction in due course. As the project is at an early stage in the delivery process, it is not possible at this time to give a date for its completion.

In the meantime, interim accommodation is being provided to cater for the increasing demographics. For St. Joseph's, most recently approval was given for the provision of 1 technical graphics room, 2 science labs, 1 general classrooms and the purchase of three existing temporary accommodation units. In the case of Gaelscoil Ros Eo, the most recent provision was the purchase of a 30m2 temporary accommodation unit.

Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progression of capital building works that are currently underway and those that are applied for in County Clare. [35275/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The current NDP, as part of Project Ireland 2040 framework, provides for €8.8bn investment in schools during the period 2018 to 2027. The increased investment under the NDP is positioning the State to focus on adding and modernising capacity in the school system.

During the NDP period 2018-2020, there were 526 completed building projectsunder the Large Scale Capital Programme (LSCP) and the Additional School Accommodation Scheme (ASA). These projects delivered in excess of 48,000 school places, including permanent accommodation for 229 special classes;and additional capacity for 67 classrooms in 14 special schoolsthroughout the country. Of the 526 school building projects completed in 2018-2020, 13of these projects delivered were in County Clare.

The Department has a significant existing pipeline of projects to be delivered over the coming years to meet capacity needs managed under the Large Scale Capital Programme and the Additional School Accommodation Scheme. Overall there are 28 projects are in County Clare. 10of these projects are on the Large Scale Capital Programme. 3 of these projects are at site acquisition or brief stage, 4 are at detailed design stage, and 3 are on site. There are a further 18 projects on the Additional Accommodation Scheme.

I have made arrangement for the details of these 28 school building projects to be forwarded directly to the Deputy.

There here are currently 5 applications currently being assessed by officials under the Additional Scheme a decision will be conveyed directly to the school when this process has been completed.