Schools Building Projects
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Michael Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

I thank the Deputy for his comprehensive list of school projects. I know that a significant amount of work is taking place. I compliment the Deputy on the work he does in engaging with schools because I believe public representatives should be constantly engaging with school communities. I thank him for his engagement on this and his engagement with us over the past number of months.
Since 2020, the Department has invested over €6 billion in school building projects under the national development plan involving the completion of over 1,300 school building projects. Over €227 million has been invested in schools across County Galway in this period, involving the completion of 79 school building projects.
The six building projects in Galway East referred to by the Deputy are part of the Department’s overall delivery pipeline. Three of the projects are additional school accommodation, ASA, projects devolved for delivery to the school authority or to Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board. St. Brigid’s in Loughrea is at stage 2a while Kilcoona National School and Gort Community School are at stage 2b of the architectural design process.
The other three projects in Athenry and Carrabane and Gort National School are all large-scale capital projects and are at stage 3 tender action, evaluation and award stage. However, I am pleased to inform the Deputy that a letter of intent has recently issued to the successful contractor on the Gort National School project and it is expected that this project will progress to construction shortly.
In July, the Government announced a capital allocation of €7.55 billion for the Department of Education and Youth for the period 2026 to 2030 under the national development plan. In relation to project roll-out for large-scale projects and ASA scheme projects, the approach will be to continue to maximise the capacity of the existing school estate as much as possible in the first instance and provide necessary additional capacity through targeted and prioritised project roll-out over the course of 2026 to 2030 period.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11