Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 December 2007
196 Deputy Olwyn Enright asked the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Laois under the summer works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33029/07]
View answerAs the Deputy may be aware, the Summer Works Scheme was introduced in 2004. Since then, over 3,000 projects costing in excess of €300 million have been completed. Considerable extra investment has been provided in the Budget to increase funding for school buildings to almost €600 million next year. With so many small projects having been completed over the past few years, I intend to focus on delivering as many large projects as possible in 2008. There will not, therefore, be a new Summer Works Scheme as part of our building programme next year.
