Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask about the additional expenditures relating to applications made under the summer works scheme the previous year where the applications were kept on file in the Department. In the interim period a number of the schools, on receiving news that their applications for the scheme in 2014 were not successful, would have carried out the works and funded them by taking out loans or by other means. They would then have got word in 2015 when the additional Estimates funding was made available that their applications were successful, but they already had the works completed. In those cases were those schools awarded the funding even though they may have had the work carried out?

In regard to the minor works grant, and the payment of that grant for this autumn, does any of this allocation relate to that or from where did the payment for minor works come because I understood no provision was specifically made for a minor works grant in the original 2015 Estimates?