The building for the School referred to by the Deputy is at an early stage of architectural planning. The School in question was listed in my announcement of April 2005 to progress through the architectural planning process and was given approval to proceed to stage 3 ( Developed sketch scheme with costings) of architectural planning in May of this year.
When the stage 3 submission is received in my Department, my Officials will arrange a meeting with the School's Design Team in order to evaluate the documentation. It is envisaged that unless there are very exceptional circumstances involved, the meeting will be sufficient to authorise the project to progress to the next stages of architectural planning.
Progression of projects to Construction will be considered in the context of the School Building and Modernisation Programme 2006-2010.