AQW 4172/16-21

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 28/09/2016
Answered On Date: 12/10/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to outline why his Department and the Education Authority have not been able to resolve a landlord responsibility dispute regarding Blackwater Integrated College.

Answer:

The Department of Education (DE) is aware that capital investment is required to improve the condition of the current school buildings occupied by Blackwater Integrated College. However DE is not in a position to invest this level of capital as the school is not vested in the schools estate because it has not yet achieved capital viability. In the interim, urgent health and safety works have been undertaken.

Discussions between DE and the Education Authority are ongoing in relation to the school.