Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 December 2022
157. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the position regarding the long-term plan for the location of Bray Institute of Further Education; the timeline for this project to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59010/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe College of the Future Major Projects Fund will support the implementation of the vision set out in the Further Education Strategy.
During my recent visit to Bray Institute of Further Education I was pleased to announce that Kildare Wicklow ETBs strategic assessment proposal to develop a Further Education College on the Bray campus was successful in the first stage of the assessment process under the FET College of the Future Major Projects Fund.
KWETB’s strategic assessment proposal envisages the development of a new Wicklow College of Further Education that would incorporate the existing PLC and consolidate FET services which would see the renovation and removal of existing buildings to transform it into a state-of-art campus.
This proposal will now progress to the next stage of the project lifecycle under the public Spending Code which requires the development of a detailed Preliminary Business Case which will begin in early 2023. A further evaluation of preliminary business cases for the ten proposals being allowed to progress to the second stage of the assessment process will be undertaken in 2023.
