Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51822/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has previously identified State-owned lands as a possible site for a new permanent building for the school referred to by the Deputy following an unsuccessful site identification process a number of years ago for this school.

Given the passage of time since the original site identification process, the Department considered it prudent to carry out a further site identification exercise for a 1,000 pupil school in this area and this process is ongoing at the moment. The purpose of the current exercise is to establish if the situation has changed in the intervening period and if other site options have become available.

Officials in my Department are working closely with the local council to identify a permanent site for this school and a number of new site options have been identified and are being considered. Given the commercial sensitivities associated with land acquisitions generally I am not in a position to comment further at this time.