Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools in County Westmeath who have applied to her Department for the installation of traffic calming and safety measures at primary and secondary schools; the number of such schools that have been granted financial aid to enable them to put in place such safety measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37040/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of road safety measures outside the vested site areas of primary and secondary schools would be a matter that should be raised in the first instance with the relevant local authority. Local authorities have the power to decide on road safety measures outside schools and should ensure that measures are in place to protect the safety of local school children.

It is open to the boards of management of individual schools to make an application for funding under my Department's summer works scheme, SWS, for any works that are required within school boundaries. Details of the schools in County Westmeath that have been approved for funding under the SWS since the scheme commenced will be forwarded to the Deputy.