Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That was expenditure.

On Deputy Keating's general point about older schools, when the five year building programme was announced, and I recall the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, saying that he did not want any child to be looking out at a field instead of a classroom, the big pressure was demographics. It was to make sure that every child had a classroom to go to. That is why the vast majority of the last five year programme was spent on building schools and classrooms for demographics. However, money was spent on some of the older schools as well and in the building programme we are working on now, and which we will be announcing in the middle of this year - the next five year programme - I hope to be able to spend more money on the school that has been established a long time, has not had new buildings, etc., and is looking at getting new buildings. I hope to ensure we would have more funding for that particular purpose. Obviously, we will have to include the demographics as well.

When we got some stimulus money for the current 2015 programme and the 70 major buildings that were announced, some of those were for older schools that needed to be replaced, renovated and expanded. However, I take the point that most of the funding in the previous programme had to go for demographics.