Work is expected to begin this summer on a new national film school in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) near Dublin.

The new 1,315sq/m film school will accommodate 385 students and is expected to take a year to complete the project.

The Irish Minster for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe, has today sent the project out to tender.

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The Minister said: "The new film school will have a dedicated industry-standard television and film studio while the existing studio can then be refurbished for use as a bluescreen and digital 'black box' facility.

"The radio base is in a portacabin while the radio newsroom is in a concrete shed with only high-level windows."

He continued: "Clearly, this is unsuitable so the new film school will consolidate media-related disciplines in modern state-of-the-art facilities."

Separately, work is expected to start at the end of this year on a 4,200sq/m digital media teaching building for 500 IADT students.

The project is in the first bundle of the Government’s public private partnership plan for third-level institutions.

(NS/BMcC)