Seamus Kirk
Question:849 Mr. Kirk asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the building project at Stonetown national school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26761/01]
Written Answers. - Schools Building Projects.
My Department has received an application for grant aid towards the cost of a building project at Stonetown national school, Stonetown, County Louth. The Deputy will appreciate that there has been a massive and unprecedented increase in the funds allocated by this Government to the building programme at all levels. The allocation in the current year is £370.5 million – 470.4 million – which is almost four times the allocation made by the previous Government in 1997. This level of funding enabled my Department to undertake a record number of building projects, and it is my intention to continue this rate of progress in overcoming the deficit arising from many past years and in meeting the needs of the present day. Decisions relating to the rate of progress to construction of individual projects, including Stonetown national school, will be taken as in previous years in the light of the allocations to be made for school building purposes in the forthcoming Estimates.
Seamus Kirk
Question:850 Mr. Kirk asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed building project at Collon national school, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26762/01]
My Department has received an application for grant aid towards the cost of a building project at Collon national school, County Louth. The Deputy will appreciate that there has been a massive and unprecedented increase in the funds allocated by this Government to the building programme at all levels. The allocation in the current year is £370.5 million – 470.4 million, which is almost four times the allocation made by the previous Government in 1997. This level of funding enabled my Department to undertake a record number of building projects, and it is my intention to continue this rate of progress in overcoming the deficit arising from many past years and in meeting the needs of the present day. Decisions relating to the rate of progress to construction of individual projects, including Collon national school, will be taken as in previous years in the light of the allocations to be made for school building purposes in the forthcoming Estimates.