Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 September 2012
446. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason additional funding that was previously sanctioned to a school ( details supplied) in County Kerry has not been paid following works that have been completed as per the original application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38681/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe school referred to by the Deputy was allocated funding on a devolved basis in 2004 for the provision of an Autistic Unit. A devolved project allows individual school authorities the means to address their accommodation and building priorities with a guaranteed amount of funding and gives them day to day control of their building project. It is a central tenet of the devolved schemes that responsibility for the management of a project, including cost control, rests with the school authority. All of the funding approved by my Department for this project have been paid to the school authority.
