Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount each owner of prefab classrooms or resource rooms who has rented those prefabs to a primary school has been paid either directly or indirectly by his Department for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26062/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Expenditure on the rental of temporary accommodation at primary level for each of the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 was €11.3m, €15.7m and €24.51m respectively. The information sought by the Deputy regarding the amount of rental payments made to individual suppliers is not readily available in my Department and given the number of payments involved it would require a very large amount of staff time to assemble. The Deputy will appreciate that the matter is complicated by the fact that my Department provides grant aid (less the local contribution) to approved schools to meet rental costs. However, the actual contract is between the school and the supplier of the accommodation.