AQW 12852/11-15

Mr Stewart Dickson
Alliance Party
East Antrim

Tabled Date: 12/06/2012
Answered On Date: 19/06/2012
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education when the twenty-year-old mobile classrooms at Corran Integrated Primary School and Nursery Unit, Larne, will be replaced with a new purpose built school building.

Answer:

As you will be aware the work on area planning is being taken forward at this time and will in due course identify priorities for capital investment. However, in the interim I recognise there is a need to ensure capital funding is utilised to improve the schools estate.

Therefore I have asked officials to consider an interim process for the identification of major school projects, which are consistent with and supportive of the Area Planning work and in which capital investment can be made in the coming period.

I would hope to be in the position to confirm an interim capital investment plan before the summer. Until then I cannot comment on any individual school proposal.