Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
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1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timeline for the delivery of a permanent building for the new secondary school serving the Dublin 9 area on the Swords Road campus; and the current pupil capacity at the interim site. [44351/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The school building project referred to by the Deputy is included in the Department of Education and Youths’ Construction Programme.

The brief for the project is the delivery of a new 1,000 pupil post primary school and accommodation including 6 classrooms for children with special educational needs, as part of a shared educational campus in Whitehall.

The project will be delivered under my Department's ADAPT 4 Programme – Programme Innovate. This programme will be led by Integrated Project Teams consisting of highly skilled and experienced design professionals, architects, engineers, project managers, quantity surveyors and various other consultants to deliver the projects.

AECOM as the Programme Manager are overseeing the procurement and appointment of these Integrated Project Teams. Upon appointment, the Integrated Project Team will begin the initial stage of architectural planning – Stage 1, where a site and current building assessment is carried out, and initial design sketch schemes are created.

The school is currently located in Whitehall on a site separate from the proposed permanent school campus location. For the 2024/25 academic year, 103 pupils were enrolled and at present there is no cap on enrolments.

It is not possible to provide a timeframe for the construction stages at present.

Further details on the Department of Education and Youth’s capital programme will be published in Autumn 2025.