Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be provided with funding to replace physical education equipment it has been forced to use since the school opened in 1975; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16736/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's school building section has not received a formal application from the school in question in relation to this issue. However, all primary schools receive an annual minor works grant from my Department.

Each school gets a standard rate of €3,809 together with a per pupil rate of €12.70.

It is open to the school management authority of the school referred to by the Deputy to use this devolved grant for the purchase of replacement physical education equipment provided it is not required for more urgent works.