Mr. Hubert Loftus:

To clarify, the list of 42 projects are new schools that are required which are not yet in existence. We require new schools in those areas between now and 2022. Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna and other schools on the school building programme are schools that are already in existence, they are on our schools building programme to be delivered and they will be delivered as part of that. To give a sense of the scale of the school building programme currently, during 2018 we have some 85 large-scale school building projects that are either at construction or are going to construction in 2018. In addition, there are 29 very significant devolved projects under the additional accommodation scheme, which are costing more than €1 million each. This gives the Deputy an idea of the scale of what is happening. Under the additional accommodation scheme generally, there are 170 projects at construction in 2018. There are a huge number of projects at construction stage. As with any large-scale capital programme, there is a pipeline of projects that are at various stages, advanced design, early design or at site acquisition stage. The 42 projects that were announced last week feed into that process and that pipeline.