Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 550: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to provide a library for Rathcoole, County Dublin where the local library was closed in 1962 and where the population is now over 1,000 in the local secondary school and 600 in the two primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29773/07]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Provision of a public library service is a matter for the local authority concerned. The Department provides capital assistance to local authorities in respect of library projects included on the public library capital programme. In 2004, local authorities were asked to review their capital programmes for library development and to submit a prioritised list of proposals which they wished to have considered by the Department in its review of the Public Library Capital Expenditure Programme. The development of a library in Rathcoole did not feature on the list submitted by the local authority.