Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 723: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to renovate and extend a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [19378/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department introduced a new initiative called the summer works scheme, SWS, in 2004 which provides capital grants for small-scale improvement works, including roof repair and the upgrading of toilet facilities at both primary and post-primary schools. Where the scope of the works required is too extensive to be carried out under SWS it is open to schools to make application for inclusion in the school building programme. However, the scope of the works referred to by the Deputy is appropriate for consideration under the summer works scheme.

The school in question did not make an application for funding under the summer works scheme for 2005. Details of the 2006 summer works scheme will be announced shortly and it is open to the school authority to make an application for the necessary works at that time.

The school concerned also has a building project which has been assessed in accordance with the published prioritisation criteria which was revised last year following consultation with the education partners. This project will be considered in the context of the school building and modernisation programme 2005-2009.