Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 June 2010
510 Deputy Pádraic McCormack asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Galway which is anxious to advance its project in view of the fact that its planning permission is due to expire later in 2010; when it is likely that the next public private partnership bundle will be announced; and if this school will be included on that list. [23198/10]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe school referred to by the Deputy was announced in 2005 as one of the 27 schools included in my Department's PPP school building programme. A site has been purchased by City of Galway VEC for the provision of a new school building.
My Department is now in the process of identifying what school projects might be eligible for consideration for inclusion in a 4th bundle of PPP schools and the school in question is being considered in that context.
The nature of procurement via Public Private Partnership is that a Bundle of school projects is offered to the market together. The other issues which have to be considered in the timing and bundling of schools include outline planning permission being secured, geographical spread and the total committed cost of the proposed bundle.
The indicative timeframe for the delivery of a Bundle of Public Private Partnership schools currently stands at approximately 4 years for the date the Bundle is announced.
