asked the Minister for Education if his Department have any plans to build a special school for the handicapped at Doordoyle, Limerick to replace the present inadequate structure at St. Gabriels at St. Joseph Street, Limerick; at what stage the proposal to build this new school is; and if he will undertake to speed up this matter in view of the deterioration of the structure at St. Joseph Street, Limerick.
Written Answers. - Dooradoyle (Limerick) Special School.
113.
My Department has agreed to grant aid the provision of a new school building to replace the existing accommodation occupied by St. Gabriel's special school, Dooradoyle, Limerick.
My Department's professional advisers have prepared sketch plans for the project and following confirmation that title of the site offered for the new school was in order a grant was formally sanctioned towards the cost.
The school authorities recently applied for permission to engage their own architect to redraw the sketch plans so that the planning for the new school can be integrated with buildings, the cost of which is to financed by another Department.
This matter is being considered by my Department in the context of a survey recently carried out in order to establish finally the accommodation requirements of the proposed new school.