Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 738: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of applications her Department received from schools in County Mayo in respect of a scheme (details supplied); the amount of funding that was required for each of the applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11609/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In the period from 2004 to 2007 inclusive, my Department funded 118 projects under the Summer Works Scheme at a cost of €8.751m for schools in Co. Mayo. The details by year are given in the following tabular statement.

The Summer Works Scheme was introduced in 2004 with the purpose of devolving funding to primary and post-primary school to carry out works to school buildings with minimum interaction with the Department. Since then, over 3,000 projects costing in excess of €300 million have been completed. With so many smaller 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 this year.