Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28706/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The nature of the application referred to by the deputy is not clear. If the deputy can provide more detail relating to the application, my Department will endeavour to provide the relevant information in due course.

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the schematics and plans for a project (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28716/22]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is in receipt of a timeline for construction of a project (details supplied). [28717/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 280 together.

The Letter of Acceptance (LOA) issued to the preferred tenderer on the 18th May 2022 commencing the school building contract for the school referred to by the Deputy. 

The construction programme underpinning the contracts will be provided by the Contractor shortly and my Department will advise the schools as soon as possible in this regard.

The plans for the project were shared with the school prior to submission of the planning application and may also be viewed on the Council’s website – .

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is in receipt of a timeline for construction of a project (details supplied). [28718/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Letters of Acceptance (LOA) issued to the preferred tenderer on the 1st June 2022 commencing the school building contract for the school projects referred to by the Deputy. 

The construction programme underpinning the contracts will be provided by the Contractor shortly and my Department will advise the schools as soon as possible in this regard.

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an extra prefab by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28729/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy, that my Department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question. My Department has made contact with the school authorities and once a completed application is received, my officials will process this and issue a decision directly to the school authority. 

The purpose of my Department’s ASA scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.

At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section, or the requirement for a new class for pupils with special education needs has been identified by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.