European Fund for Strategic Infrastructure

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Questions (163)

Thomas Byrne

Question:

163. Deputy Thomas Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Skills the potential investment projects his Department put forward to the Department of Finance task force report for the European Fund for Strategic Investment. [2676/17]

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Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills

In November 2014 my Department provided a project list to the Department of Finance for inclusion in the submission to the Task Force established to develop an EU investment project pipeline. A summary of the projects provided at that time is in the table for the information of the Deputy.

Country: Ireland

Projects List

Sector	Subsector	Private/Public/PPP	Project name	Implementing agency	Description	Included in national investment plan (yes/no)	Status	Total investment cost (EUR million)	Investment in 2015 - (EUR million)	Barriers/solutions
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Development of 11 Primary & Post Primary Schools	No	Planning complete. Ready to go to Tender & Construction. Construction can commence in 2015	31m	31m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Development of 18 Primary & Post Primary Schools	No	Planning complete. Preparing to go to Tender & Construction. Construction can commence in 2015	72m	72m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Development of 18 Primary & Post Primary Schools	No	Planning not yet complete. Construction can commence in 2016	92m	92m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Development of 13 Primary & Post Primary Schools	No	Planning not yet complete Construction expected to commence in 2017	63m	63m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Peplacement of school temporary accommodation with permanent	No	Planning not yet complete. Can commence in 2015	150m	150m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Schools ICT Programme	No	Planning not yet complete. Can commence in 2015	200m	200m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Education and training	Public	Modernisation of educational facilities	Department of Education & Skills	Modernisation of Further Education and Training Facilities	No	Planning not yet complete. Can commence in 2015	90m	90m	Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.
Social Infrastructure	Higher education	Combination of projects that rely solely on public funding but also projects that combine both income streams.	Modernisation of educational higher education facilities	Department of Education & Skills	New and replacement facilities in HEIs, programmes to allow enhancement of IT infrastructure and strategic property acquisitions.	No	Detailed in the spreadsheet "Copy of HE Capital Priority Needs".	€2.4b of which €1.653b is sought from public sources and €756m coming from private sources.		Barriers include fiscal constraints. Possible solutions include EU grants.