Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the sites acquisition and property management unit of her Department will issue a decision in respect of an application for consent to allow a school (details supplied) apply for planning permission for the development of a new hockey pitch and changing facilities; if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing delays in processing this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42009/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department following a review of the application has issued a reply to the school in recent days regarding this matter.

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a request for additional facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42032/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy was approved funding in March 2021 for the provision an 80m² mainstream classroom and a 15m² SET Room under my Department’s Additional Accommodation Scheme (ASA). Subsequently the school submitted another ASA application for the provision of 2 special classes and associated accommodation and this application is currently being assessed.

In relation to the school’s application for a GP Room, as the Deputy is aware, the main focus of resources over the last decade and for the coming period is on the provision of additional capacity to cater for increasing demographics. The second half of the NDP (from 2023 onwards) will see an increasing focus on the upgrade and refurbishment of the existing school stock. This will include a PE Hall/GP Room build and modernisation programme to ensure that students in all schools have appropriate facilities to support PE provision.