Mark Ward
Question:82. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education when a school (details supplied) will see work commence on its new school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19621/23]
View answerWednesday, 26 April 2023
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The major building project for the school referred to by the Deputy is part of a campus project with a Primary School and a Post Primary School. The project is assigned to my Department’s ADAPT (Accelerated Delivery of Architectural Planning and Tendering) programme. The project brief is the provision of two new 16 classroom primary schools and a new PE Hall for the post primary school.
My Department authorised the Design Team to proceed to retender the project as the first tranche of tenders were deemed unviable.
The original planning permission expired in May 2022, due to a change in the Planning Acts introduced by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in Sept 2021 which removed the option to extend a planning permission, a new planning application was lodged in August 2022. A response to a request for further information from South Dublin County Council is currently being prepared by the Design Team. The project was retendered in parallel with the new planning application.