How can it depend on the Office of Public Works when the Minister for Education announced some time ago that the building section concerned with national schools was being transferred from the Office of Public Works to the Department of Education?

I would regard that as a separate question but the Minister did make that announcement. Negotiations are going on between the Department and the Office of Public Works to bring about a position where total responsibility for primary school building would rest within the Department of Education.

Is the Minister of State saying that the Minister announced the change before the details of the transfer had been worked out within the Departments?

That is a separate question. I want to make the position clear. The question Deputy Molloy is asking is only relevant, if at all, in so far as it concerns the question on the Order Paper. Deputy Molloy is raising a general matter not covered by the question.