Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The fund which will shortly be made available to primary schools is to enable them to buy equipment that they can use in accordance with the needs of their students and taking into account the facilities available to them. The Department will continue to upgrade and provide quality facilities for our schools. All recent building and modernisation projects have delivered top-class extra facilities. As the schools building programme proceeds — 1,500 projects are scheduled this year — more and more schools are benefiting from top-class facilities. Those schools which have not yet benefited have the flexibility to adapt the PE programme to suit their needs.

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