Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if any secondary school is unable at this stage to use funding allocated under the summer works scheme, SWS; and if she will consider reallocating the unused funding to a school (details supplied) in County Kildarefor the provision of a covered walkway. [20486/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy submitted an application under the summer works scheme for 2005 for grant aid for roof repairs, conversion works and a covered walkway. The school identified roof repairs and conversion works as its highest priority project and was successful in obtaining funding for these works. It will not be possible to allocate further funding to the school this year because, for insurance purposes, only one contractor can be on site at any given time.

It is, however, open to the school authority to apply for funding for the covered walkway under the summer works scheme for 2006, details of which I will be publishing later this year.