Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 October 2014
202. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has not yet provided the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 a date for its stage 2A meeting concerning plans to rebuild the school. [38504/14]
View answerThe project referred to by the Deputy is currently at Stage 2(a) of Architectural Planning. My Department has recently written to the Board of Management authorising the project to complete Stage 2(a) and have agreed a date with the Board of Management for the Stage 2(a) Stakeholders meeting which is to be held on 22nd of October.
Due to competing demands on my Department's capital budget imposed by the need to prioritise the limited funding available for the provision of additional school accommodation to meet increasing demographic requirements it was not possible to include this project in the 5 year construction programme announced in March 2012.
School building projects, including the project for this school, which have been initiated but not included in the current five year construction programme will continue to be progressed to final planning stages in anticipation of the possibility of further funds being available to my Department in the future.
