Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Education and Skills has direct Exchequer funding over the horizon of this programme of €3.8 billion and another €200 million in public private partnerships, PPPs, aimed at the IT sector, which again can assist the regions.

In terms of prefabs, the first objective of this Government was to eliminate hired-in prefabs in all schools. That has been achieved. The next objective is to eliminate the temporary buildings the Deputy spoke about, namely, bought prefabs, and I am assured by my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, that the resources she has asked for and that I provided will achieve that objective in the lifetime of this programme.

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