Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The issue of capacity and availability of resources to accommodate students comfortably brings me to my next point about the broader challenges schools have faced adapting to Covid-19 guidelines. Some schools have had to undertake significant remedial works in a short amount of time using the limited minor works funding and are still struggling to accommodate students in appropriate teaching environments. Can the Department advise whether minor works grants will be available next summer to conduct works outside of Covid-19, whereby the minor works grant can be used for typical summer projects that normally use this funding? The minor works funding is primarily there to allow schools to maintain their buildings. Covid-19 will mean that schools have effectively lost this funding for two years.

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