Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the applications received by her Department in 2007 from schools in County Cork under the summer works scheme; and when they can expect approval of these applications. [35300/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The details sought by the Deputy are not readily available. As the Deputy may be aware, the Summer Works Scheme was introduced in 2004. Since then, over 3,000 projects costing in excess of €300 million have been completed. Considerable extra investment has been provided in the Budget to increase funding for school buildings to almost €600 million next year. With so many small projects having been completed over the past few years, I intend to focus on delivering as many large projects as possible in 2008. There will not, therefore, be a new Summer Works Scheme as part of our building programme next year.