Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 September 2014
1384. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by her Department on repairing primary school prefabs in Naas, County Kildare, for the new school year 2014-15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34022/14]
View answer1385. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has spent considerable money repairing existing prefabs and providing two new prefabs to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare instead of utilising the empty school on Craddockstown Road, Naas, County Kildare; the reason the school on Craddockstown Road, Naas, is not being used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34023/14]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 1384 and 1385 together.
Funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme for repairs to Department owned prefabs that were damaged during the storms earlier this year at the school referred to by the Deputy has recently been approved. As a contract to have these works carried out has not been awarded, the amount of funding provided is commercially sensitive and cannot be disclosed yet. The School Authority were also sanctioned funding for two additional prefabricated units to cater for increased enrolments.
These works are necessary at the school in question as it is intended that the school building on Craddockstown Road will be utilised for alternative school provision.
