Significant Step Towards Building €10m New School In Tralee

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CEO of Kerry ETB Colm McEvoy and Jim Finucane sign service level agreement for the new Gaelcholaiste Tralee school in Cloon Mor near Hawley Park. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

CEO of Kerry ETB Colm McEvoy and Jim Finucane sign service level agreement for the new Gaelcholaiste Chiarraí school in Cloonmore near (Hawley Park). Photo by Gavin O’Connor.

THE new Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí school is expected to cost €10m to build and is scheduled to be completed during the 2019/2020 academic year.

Yesterday, Kerry Education and Training Board announced the signing of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the delivery of the devolved major project with the Department of Education and Skills project for the construction of a new 600 student school.

The school will be constructed on the site at Cloonmore (Hawley Park) which was transferred to Kerry ETB by Kerry County Council for the construction of the new school in March 2016. Based on current plans the new school building project will be completed in the 2019/20 academic year.

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Kerry Education and Training Board (Kerry ETB) at its Board meeting on March 21, signed the contract for the transfer of the 2.7 hectare site from Kerry County Council for the construction of the new Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí school building.

The new school building accommodation will include:

• over 20 general purpose classrooms
• specialists room including multimedia, music, design and communications graphics etc.
• science laboratories
• arts rooms
• home economics room
•construction studies, engineering and technology rooms
• A school library, general purpose areas, students dining area, staff room etc.

In addition the new school building project will include a full size PE hall for the school.

The inclusion of the new Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí building on the school building programme was announced in November 2015 by the Department of Education and Skills.

The signing of the SLA is a very significant step forward with the new school building project as it in effect gives the green light to Kerry ETB to proceed with the procurement and appointment of the Design Team for the project.

Kerry ETB will in due course lead the tendering for the building project and the appointment of the main Contractor for the construction of the new school building.

The SLA will be signed at a specially convened Kerry ETB Board meeting on Monday October 3rd 2016 in the existing Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí building at Moyderwell Tralee.

With the devolved funding school building project model Kerry ETB will take the lead role in the delivery of the new school building with the overall budget for the new school in excess of €10,000,000.

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