Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills

Vote 27 - Education and Skills (Revised)

12:05 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will get a note on that matter. The soaring demand in pupil numbers which, as the Deputy is probably aware, are projected to increase by 70,000 up to the year 2018 is putting extraordinary pressure on the provision of school places, that is, the net number of additional places, as distinct from improvements that would have been characteristic of the minor works grant, from which a total of 837 schools benefited last year at a total cost of €81 million.

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