Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 March 2004
259 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the plans for the provision of a new post primary school at the Curragh, County Kildare; if a design team has been appointed; if officials of his Department have met the Department of Defence in relation to identifying a site; if the Department has met Kildare VEC in the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9832/04]
View answerMy Department has agreed to the amalgamation of the three post-primary schools in Kildare town and to the purchase of a site to facilitate this development. The timing of when individual projects can progress depend on the budgetary allocations, the rate of progress of existing projects in architectural planning and the priority afforded to a project by reference to the published criteria for prioritising large-scale projects.
The purchase of a site for the proposed amalgamated post-primary school is currently being pursued. As soon as a site has been acquired my Department will allow the project into architectural planning in accordance with the criteria used for prioritising post primary building projects. The school authorities will be kept informed of developments.
