Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 260: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to his reply to previous parliamentary questions, wherein he has indicated that responsibility for compliance with health and safety requirements is a matter for the school authorities, the way in which school authorities are expected to be compliant when school buildings are structurally unsound or lacking in adequate space to enable compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14655/04]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Primary schools are given an annual allocation of €3,809 plus €12.70 per pupil under the grant scheme for minor works which can be used entirely at the discretion of school management to address basic health and safety issues relating to the school infrastructure. In addition, my Department has set aside a contingency sum of €11 million to deal with emergency works in primary and post-primary schools, including emergency health and safety works, during 2004.