Mr. Hubert Loftus:

I thank the Deputy. There is a good range of questions there. In general, in the past 20 years or so, the planning and building unit's focus has largely been on the provision of additional capacity. That is where the bulk of our focus was and where the bulk of our funding was going. That was reflecting the demographic route of primary moving into post-primary. Where we are now in that journey is that we must see out post-primary, and we must see out special needs and how that works through. If we look ahead towards the next ten, 15 or 20 years and look towards the 2030 and 2050 climate targets, there will be a much-increased emphasis on the modernisation of existing infrastructure and working that through as part and parcel of doing that in an integrated way as part of the modernisation of school facilities generally. We are conscious that with the last period and the big focus on additional capacity, it meant that if schools were not in that additional capacity space, as the Deputy has referred to, they were not getting significant projects. The way they have been managed up to now has essentially been to look at the opportunities for those schools through the likes of the summer works schemes, which is a very important scheme that has delivered a lot of good work over the years.