Vol. 543 No. 2
773 Mr. U. Burke asked the Minister for Education and Science the stage at which planning for the provision of additional facilities at Kiltartan national school, Gort, County Galway, has reached; if his attention has been drawn to the overcrowding which exists at the school; and when this project will go to tender. [26269/01]
My Department has received an application for grant-aid towards the cost of a building project at Kiltartan national school, Gort, County Galway. The Deputy will appreciate that there has been a massive and unprecedented increase in the funds allocated by this Government to the building programme at all levels. The allocation in the current year is £370.5 million – 470.4 million. This is almost four times the allocation made by the previous Government in 1997. This level of funding has enabled my Department to undertake a record number of building projects and it is my intention to continue this rate of progress in overcoming the deficit arising from many past years and in meeting the needs of the present day. Decisions relating to the rate of progress to construction of individual projects including the school referred to by the Deputy will be taken, as in previous years, in the light of the allocations to be made for school building purposes in the forthcoming estimates.
774 Mr. U. Burke asked the Minister for Education and Science the plans he has to extend and refurbish Kilcooley national school, Loughrea, County Galway; the stage at which the planning process has reached; the nature of requirements at the school; and when the project will go to tender. [26270/01]
My Department has received an application for grant-aid towards the cost of a building project at Kilcooley national school, Loughrea, County Galway. The Deputy will appreciate that there has been a massive and unprecedented increase in the funds allocated by this Government to the building programme at all levels. The allocation in the current year is £370.5 million – 470.4 million. This is almost four times the allocation made by the previous Government in 1997. This level of funding has enabled my Department to undertake a record number of building projects and it is my intention to continue this rate of progress in overcoming the deficit arising from many past years and in meeting the needs of the present day. Decisions relating to the rate of progress to construction of individual projects including the school referred to by the Deputy will be taken, as in previous years, in the light of the allocations to be made for school building purposes in the forthcoming estimates.
