Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Deputy’s advocacy for the school. The Department has made an offer to the school in respect of a special education teaching room. We await the school’s engagement on that. For any issues that might be regarded as an emergency and for some of the issues the Deputy mentioned, there is a very clear pathway to make emergency funding made readily available to schools if there is a need. I do not want there to be any doubt about that.

As I said, we keep everything under review in the context of the capital envelope we have. More than 300 buildings are at various stages of construction, of which 40 are new school buildings. In the coming months, the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform will engage with other Departments, including my Department, on NDP allocations for the 2026-28 period, with allocation decisions expected during the first half of 2024. In the interim, my Department will continue to engage with the authorities of the school in question with respect to accommodation needs.

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