Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 303: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the total money spent on the primary school building programme in 2007, with a breakdown of expenditure under the different schemes within the building programme, if there were funds left over from the original budget provided and if so the position regarding this funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7415/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The total money spent on the Primary School Building Programme in 2007 was €398.555m. No funds were left over from the original budget and indeed an additional €92.555m was spent in excess of the original provision for the year. The breakdown of this expenditure is contained in the document below.

The total spend figure of €398.555m is inclusive of an adjustment amounting to €27.1m that was conducted in the course of the year relating to 2006 payments to OPW for remediation works (€20m) and site purchases (€7.1m). The adjustment is reflected fully in the expenditure figures for both remediation works and site purchases in the following table.