Schools Building Projects.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 February 2005

Thursday, 10 February 2005

Questions (227)

Paul McGrath

Question:

228 Mr. P. McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Science the budget 2004 allocation for capital expenditure on primary schools, second level schools and higher education respectively; the additional funding for capital projects during 2004; and the actual expenditure at 31 December 2004 in each sector. [4407/05]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Science (Ms Hanafin)

In the 2004 Revised Book of Estimates, the allocations were €394.3 million for the primary and post-primary sectors, of which €201 million was for primary, €187 million for post-primary and €6.3 million for the primary and post-primary combined allocation for schools ICT. The allocation for the third level sector was €97.5 million. The 2004 Revised Book of Estimates reflected increased funding which was announced subsequent to the publication of the Abridged Estimates in November 2003.

The outturn for primary and post-primary was €352.7 million, of which primary was €171 million; post-primary was €162 million and the primary and post-primary combined allocation for schools ICT was €19.7 million. The third level outturn was €96.6 million. My Department carried forward €50 million which is being allocated for use in the primary and post-primary sectors in 2005.