School Accommodation

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Questions (53)

Brian Stanley

Question:

52 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been spent annually over the past five years on the rental of prefabs for the purpose of using them as classrooms in counties Dublin, Laois and Offaly. [34876/11]

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Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills (Deputy Ruairí Quinn)

Historical data on the rental cost of prefabs units is readily available from 2009 onwards. Rented prefabs may be used for Mainstream Classrooms and/or Resource Rooms/Special Needs Rooms. The following Table sets out the annual rental cost of prefab units in counties Dublin, Laois and Offaly for 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011 as requested.

Annual Expenditure for Rented Prefabs (Primary & Post-Primary — 2009-2011)

*Please note that a prefab unit may consist of one or more classrooms and/or ancillary accommodation
Year	Dublin	Laois	Offaly
2011	€5.3M	€552K	€300K
2010	€5.5M	€532K	€322K
2009	€5.09M	€565K	€414K

Question No. 53 answered with Question No. 41.