Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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There was €100 million allocated to 36 projects to proceed in 2017. The total cost of those over 2016 and 2017 is €260 million, about €70 million of which comes from the €100 million in 2016. All these projects were on the programme anyway so there is a net gain. We are not adding a number of schools but funding the existing pipeline programmes.