Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the prefabs at a school (details supplied); when they will be replaced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29871/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The school to which the deputy refers has been granted capital funding under my Department’s SEN Reconfiguration and Modular Accommodation programme for the provision of 6 x mainstream classrooms, 9 x special education tuition rooms (SET) and 4 x special education needs classrooms (SEN).

This programme involves the use of Project Management supports which is designed to enable the accommodation to be provided as quickly as possible and help ease the administrative workload for school authorities in relation to the management and delivery of projects. Keerigan Sheanon Newman has been appointed, from my Department’s Framework to design and tender the project at the school in question. This is a collaborative process between the Project Manager, School Authority and my Department.

Due to the scale of the proposed additional accommodation an application for planning permission was submitted to the local authority. It is expected that a decision from the local authority will be received in early August. My Department is fully aware of the urgency in respect of this accommodation and will be working closely with the project managers and the school authority to keep it updated on overall project delivery and timelines subject to a grant of the necessary statutory approvals.