Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 447: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application for devolved funding by a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan to replace the existing building, which is totally overcrowded and in a very dangerous situation regarding the health and safety of children, parents and teachers; if funding will be available in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13972/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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An application was submitted to the Department under the Small Schools Scheme 2007 by the school referred to by the Deputy. Due to the volume of applications received in my Department it was not possible to allocate funding to all proposed projects and the school referred to was not successful.

The main emphasis of the School Building and Modernisation programme this year is on the delivery of larger scale projects providing sufficient school places particularly in rapidly developing areas as well as delivering improvements in the quality of existing primary and post-primary school accommodation throughout the country.