Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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974. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied); if she will report on her engagement with the school community in relation to same; the reason additional prefab accommodation was not provided; and the expected date for handover for the building. [46596/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The school building project referred to by the Deputy is part of a campus project assigned to my Department’s Design and Build programme which uses a professional external Project Manager to progress the project through the relevant stages of architectural planning, tender and construction.

This campus project will deliver a new 1,000 pupil post-primary school and accommodation, including classrooms, for children with special educational needs and a 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including classrooms, for children with special educational needs. The campus project is being delivered on a phased basis with the permanent accommodation for the school referred to by the Deputy expected to be completed later this year.

My department has delivered interim accommodation on the permanent site up to and including the 2025/26 school year, in line with enrolments agreed with the school’s patron body and has continued to liaise with the patron body in this regard. In response to a request from the school, some reconfiguration works were carried out on the existing interim accommodation over the summer period to facilitate the school population, pending delivery of the permanent school building later this year.