Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38761/22]

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 school building programme. The brief will provide a new 8 classroom Primary School and two classrooms for children with special educational needs on a site being acquired from the local authority.

My Department will shortly be commencing the process for the appointment of the Project Manager and the design team for the project. Once the Project Manager and the design team is appointed they will commence the process to take the project forward through the stages of architectural planning to tender and construction stages.

As with all school building projects, pre-planning meetings are required with the Local Authority in advance of preparing a Planning Application to ensure the highest probability of a successful planning application in the shortest time possible.

Until planning permission has been granted it will not be possible to provide timelines in relation to the progression of the project to tender and construction stages.

My Department will continue to address the interim accommodation requirements for the school and will continue to keep the school and its patron body updated as the project progresses.

Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38762/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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It is intended that the school referred to by the Deputy will relocate to an existing building currently occupied on an interim basis by a special school while awaiting the construction of a building project for their school.

In this regard, the building project for that school is expected to commence on site in Quarter 3 2022 with an 18 month construction timeframe.