The school referred to by the Deputy opened in September 1998 with provisional recognition and was granted permanent recognition in 2002. My Department is currently providing grant aid towards the rental of temporary accommodation for the school, at a rate of 95% of the rental costs.
The acquisition of a site for the school referred to by the Deputy is being considered in the context of the schools building and modernisation programme and the Deputy will be aware that I recently announced the first phase of this programme, providing details of 122 major school building projects which will prepare tenders and move to construction during 2005. This is the first in a series of announcements, I plan to make in the coming period that will include the following: details of schools identified as suitable for construction under public private partnerships; an expansion of the number of schools that will be invited to deliver their building projects on the basis of devolved funding; details of schools with projects approved under the 2005 summer works scheme; schools whose projects will further progress through the design process and schools that will be authorised to commence architectural planning.