Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 327: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Wexford will obtain a prefab to accommodate an extra teacher for children enrolled for September 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23503/04]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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All applications for temporary accommodation for this year have been considered by the school planning section of my Department. In the context of the available funding, and the number of applications for that funding, it was not possible to approve all applications received, and only those with an absolute and demonstrated need for additional accommodation were approved.

The need for additional accommodation at the school to which the Deputy refers will be considered in the context of a review which is being undertaken of all projects that did not proceed as part of the 2004 school building programme, with a view to including it as part of a multi-annual school building programme from 2005. I expect to be in a position to make a further announcement in this matter later this year.

It is also open to the school to apply for temporary accommodation for 2005 under a new scheme recently announced. The closing date for applications under this scheme is 5 November 2004.