Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 June 2004
241 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Education and Science the position with a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the stage it is at; the amount of money it will cost to deal with the problem of asbestos in the school in summer, 2004; if it would be more prudent to move this school to the next stage and put it out for tender to build a new school premises. [19611/04]
View answerThe large-scale building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is listed in section 8 of the 2004 school building programme which is published on my Department's website at www.education.ie. This project is at stage 4-5, detail design-bill of quantities, of architectural planning. It has been assigned a band 3 rating by my Department in accordance with the published criteria for prioritising large-scale projects.
The school planning section is currently reviewing all projects, which were not authorised to proceed to construction as part of the 2004 school building programme, including the school referred to by the Deputy, with a view to including them as part of a multi-annual school building programme from 2005. The proposed project and its advancement including the current band rating assigned to this project, will be considered as part of this review. The Department cannot indicate the estimated cost for the asbestos removal as this is regarded as commercially sensitive.
