Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 June 2015
520. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allocated funding to make the drop-off and collection area safer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24552/15]
View answerI wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application from the school to which he refers for the works outlined.
The works in question are appropriate to the Summer Works Scheme, the purpose of which is to devolve funding to individual school authorities to facilitate carrying out small and medium scale capital works that will improve and upgrade existing school buildings and the grounds within the school site area.
Under the scheme, responsibility for identifying and prioritising the most urgently required project rests with the school authority. While the school did not apply for the works concerned under the 2014 scheme, it will be open to the school, if it so decides, to make an application under a future summer works scheme.
