Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures which exist to provide additional funding for schools that are not located in RAPID areas but which cater for a sizeable proportion of pupils who live in RAPID areas; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 40% of pupils attending a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 live in a RAPID area ; if the school's extension and refurbishment requirements will be fast tracked in view of this information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13115/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school in question has an application with my Department for a major capital project, which has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria for large scale building projects revised last year in consultation with the education partners. This project will be progressed in the context of the school buildings and modernisation programme from 2005 to 2009.

The school is participating in the urban dimension of my Department's Giving Children an Even Break programme and will receive non-pay support amounting to €4,250 in the current school year under the programme. The school is also participating in the Palmerstown cluster of my Department's school completion programme and, in this context, benefits from funding of €160,000 being provided for the cluster, which encompasses three schools in all, in the current school year.