Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 30 June 2004
210 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Science when he expects to provide the necessary resources to carry out improvements, modernise and upgrade the top 100 primary schools throughout the country in need of such attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19791/04]
View answer211 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Science when he expects to provide the necessary resources to carry out improvements, modernise and upgrade the top 100 second level schools throughout the country in need of such attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19792/04]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 211 together.
When publishing the 2004 school building programme, I outlined that my strategy will be grounded in capital investment based on multi-annual allocations. My officials are reviewing all projects which were not authorised to proceed to construction as part of the 2004 school building programme, with a view to including them as part of a multi-annual school building programme from 2005 onwards. As part of this process, consultations were held with the education partners about the prioritisation criteria used for large scale building projects. The purpose of these consultations is to ensure that the criteria have optimum precision and are fully tuned to meeting the priority accommodation needs of the primary and post-primary sectors. The revised criteria are being used to frame the multi-annual programme. I expect to be in a position to make further announcements on this matter in the course of the year.
