Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is progress on the provision of funding towards new facilities for a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [23219/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The school referred to by the Deputy originally applied for an extension and refurbishment to provide for improved ancillary accommodation, such as a General Purpose Room, a Multi-purpose/Staff Room, a Remedial Room and a General Office. The project proposed did not include additional mainstream classrooms and having regard to competing demands on the building programme the application was not progressed further.

An application was received from the school in question under the Small Schools Scheme 2007 for additional accommodation including mainstream classrooms. Earlier this year, 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.

It is open to the school authority to make an application for funding towards additional accommodation/refurbishment under the Major Capital Programme in relation to the provision of mainstream accommodation. The application form may be downloaded from the Department's website.