Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 750: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools given sanction to proceed with a new building project in the years 2002 to date in 2008; and the number that have been completed. [29105/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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More than €2.6 billion was provided for school building infrastructure between 2000 and 2006 under the last National Development Plan and a further €4.5 billion is being invested under the current NDP 2007-2013. Close to €600m of this will be provided this year alone.

In the period 2002 to date, 614 large-scale building projects at primary and post-primary schools were given approval to proceed to tender and construction. To date, 492 of these projects have reached practical completion. In addition to the large-scale projects, thousands of smaller projects were funded in this period.