Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 6 Nov 2001

Vol. 543 No. 2

Written Answers. - Schools Building Projects.

Brendan Howlin

Ceist:

788 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for additional accommodation at Monageer national school, County Wexford; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that students and teachers are working in cramped conditions in a prefab building; the reason there has been no progress to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26338/01]

Minister for Education and Science (Dr. Woods):

My Department has received an application for grant aid towards the cost of a building project at Monageer national school, County Wexford.

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 Monageer national school, will be taken as in previous years in the light of the allocations to be made for school building purposes in the forthcoming Estimates.

Ivan Yates

Ceist:

789 Mr. Yates asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the need for the provision of additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; if this project is under consideration in his Department; and the position of this project. [26339/01]

Minister for Education and Science (Dr. Woods):

My Department has received an application for grant aid towards the cost of a building project at the school in question.

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.

Denis Naughten

Ceist:

790 Mr. Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the health and safety implications of the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26340/01]

Minister for Education and Science (Dr. Woods):

My Department has received an application for grant aid towards the cost of a building project at the school in question.

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.