Michael Ring
Question:149 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 534 of 29 September 2004, if she will provide the information requested as soon as it is available. [23861/04]
View answerThursday, 7 October 2004
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My Department's records are held on a project by project basis. It would be extremely unusual for the roof of a new school building to be replaced and statistical information is not kept on such one-off situations. Such issues, if they arise, are a matter between the schools, who are generally the client on such projects, their design teams and the building contractors. My Department is aware of one project, Scoil Raifteirí in Castlebar County Mayo, which was built in 1998 and was re-roofed in 2004. Unfortunately in this case the roof pitch was not sufficient to withstand the exceptional and unpredictable local wind lift factors which caused the roof tiles to lift and break.