Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in ensuring a school (details supplied) will be open and fully operational for the school term 2023/2024; if she will provide clarification as to when construction is likely to commence on site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24183/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy is being delivered under my Department’s Design and Build Programme which uses a professional external Project Management team to progress the project through the stages of architectural planning, tendering and construction.

It is intended that the project for the school referred to by the Deputy will be included in the next bundle of projects to proceed to tender later this year. It is anticipated that the project will commence on site in early 2023 and will take 70 weeks to complete once construction starts.

My Department continues to liaise with the school's patron body in relation to the school’s interim accommodation needs. It is intended that the school will move to suitable interim accommodation on the permanent site for the 2023/24 school year, pending delivery of the permanent accommodation for the school.