Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 15 March 2012
28 Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department is insisting under the recently announced replacement of prefabs programme that all new structures must be independent of the existing school campus; if his attention has been drawn to the additional costs this will impose in terms of heating, plumbing and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/12]
View answerThe reasoning behind my Department insisting that the new permanent structures replacing rented prefabs must be independent of the existing school campus is to ensure that the maximum number of schools benefit from this initiative. While there may be, in some cases, limited potential costs related to the provision of services, my Department's Planning and Building Unit is satisfied that the level of funding being provided to individual schools is sufficient to meet the costs of replacing prefabricated structures with permanent buildings on a stand-alone basis.
