Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The only way schools would have applied for science lab upgrading was under the criteria for the summer works for this year. Given that we decided not to proceed with those, we have not analysed them and I cannot give the Deputy that figure. In 2006 and 2007 I gave funding for science labs. We do not have a budget heading for science labs but obviously in respect of extensions, refurbishments and new schools, state-of-the-art facilities are being established and much headway has been made in that respect in the past few years.

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