339 Mr. Yates asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in the issuing of approval by his Department for an application for the divestiture of a disused national school (details supplied) in County Wexford; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the organisation concerned cannot draw down grant aid until this approval is granted; if he will arrange for the inspector concerned to urgently issue the necessary letter in order to finalise the divestiture application; and if so, when. [8891/01]

My Department has received an application for the divestiture of the disused national school in question and this is being dealt with at present.

The interested party will be contacted about the matter as quickly as possible.