Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My understanding, from replying to a number of parliamentary questions on the summer works programme, is that schools that did not make it through the scrutiny process will be prioritised next time. I suspect that if a new summer works scheme applies in 2015, the school's application will be retained on file so it will be at the top of the queue, along with those other schools that were unsuccessful on this occasion. I hope the college will be facilitated.

The school could apply under the emergency works scheme but I stress that the criteria are strict - for example, a school must be unable to function without the emergency works for which an application is made. It is difficult to see how the school in question could succeed in such an application but there is no harm in trying.