Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive its new permanent school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3160/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is at Stage 3 of Architectural Planning – Tender Action, which includes for the appointment of a building contractor.

The final prequalification process is complete and the Design Team are finalising Tender Documents.

A tender process usually takes between 8 and 12 months to complete.

My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme, including the project mentioned by the Deputy. The main elements of this pipeline currently involve in excess of 1,300 school building projects for delivery under my Department’s Large Scale and Additional Accommodation Scheme. These projects are currently in progress across the various stages of planning, design, tender and construction, most of which are expected to be either under construction or completed in the period up to 2025.

During January, my Department will be assessing overall requirements for 2023 and associated work programme and will update individual schools of same in due course.

James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a campus project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3167/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The project the Deputy refers to has been devolved to the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) for delivery as part of bundled school building programmes. The shared education campus for the project in question is in the bundle referred to as ‘Project Liffey’.

A letter issued from the Department to the Project Liffey schools in 2022 to advise that their respective school had been included in the programme. The NDFA has since been in contact with each school to introduce the team, communicate arrangements and discuss the project briefs.

The next step is for the NDFA to procure a Design Team for the project bundle to progress the projects through the design stages. An estimated timeline for the completion of the project will be available once the design stages have concluded.