I can confirm to the Deputy, that the Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority in question.
The purpose of my Department’s Additional School Accommodation (or ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom accommodation and accommodation for pupils with special education needs is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.
At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section, or the requirement for a new class for pupils with special education needs has been identified by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.
I can confirm that a brief letter of offer issued to the school authorities for modular accommodation. The school authorities have requested to progress their application as a traditional build project. The application is currently being assessed by my officials. Once the assessment process has been finalised, the school authority will be notified of the decision directly.
