As part of the expansion of the devolved scheme for primary school building works a grant of €100,000 was sanctioned to enable the management authorities of the school in question to provide an additional classroom.
The initiative allows boards of management to address their accommodation and building priorities with a guaranteed amount of funding and gives boards of management control of the building project. My Department does not intend increasing the amount of grant offered to the school. This is because a central tenet of the devolved scheme is that the school, granted discretion and funding, must equally accept responsibility for prioritisation, control of costs and ensuring value for money.