Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can update the Senator now. We are involved in a budgetary process now and will be next year. The decision was correctly taken to put together a capital envelope for schools for 2012-16. If it is any help to the Senator, that is progressing quite well. It is ahead of target and provides good value for taxpayers' money. The Minister for Education and Skills is very keen to have additional money spent on capital projects as soon as she can get her hands on it. There is progress in that group of schools.

The aim for this school is to fight to be included in the next project. The school is in a very good position. It has gone through the various stages. It is a question now of when money becomes available. The Senator should keep raising the issue, as he has done today, to ensure that it is on the next list of projects. I hope it will not be as far off as the Senator thinks. That depends on circumstances, money and growth. Recent news is good even if the Senator might not want to admit that. I hope that will lead to there being more money available sooner than we all hoped.