Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 872: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress on the provision of funding towards new facilities for a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14816/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy originally applied in 1999 for an extension and refurbishment to provide for improved ancillary accommodation. A design team was appointed to the project and it was progressed to the early stages of architectural planning. Funding of €25,831 has been paid to date for professional and associated fees.

Subsequently, the school submitted an application under the Small Schools Scheme 2007 for additional accommodation including mainstream classrooms. On 5 March 2007, I announced details of the schools to receive funding under this Scheme. Due to the volume of applications received in the Department it was not possible to allocate funding to all proposed projects and the school referred to by the Deputy was not successful in this instance. The Department recently received an appeal from the school in relation to the initial decision which will be considered further.