It has been decided in principle to grant aid an extension of 1,097 square metres at St. Patrick's post-primary school, Naas, County Kildare. The schedules of accommodation have issued to County Kildare VEC for acceptance and a response is currently awaited. In the vocational sector the teacher allocation is done on a VEC scheme basis and it is a matter for the chief executive officer, with the agreement of the committee, to allocate teaching resources to individual schools in the scheme from within the approved teacher allocation. My Department, having considered an appeal from the County Kildare VEC, approved an increase in the teacher allocation to the VEC for the 1999-2000 school year.