Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am open to considering any possibilities in the PPP area, Junker funding or elsewhere. As the Deputy knows, the European Investment Bank opened a Dublin office for the first time and there are opportunities to look at funding in education as an area where that could be delivered.

The Deputy is right in saying that costs have risen. When we started to tender in the depths of the recession, costs were very competitive and they are becoming more expensive. We have had to factor that into our planning process. We are using up-to-date costs and we are very careful - sometimes to the frustration of schools - to get value for money on projects coming in.

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