Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 1047: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No.165 of 4 March 2009, if he will provide more accurate, up-to-date figures on the number of primary and post-primary schools in County Laois which are renting prefabricated units; the number of prefabs being rented by primary and post-primary schools in County Laois; the number of prefabs being rented by each school involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11184/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The information provided by me on 4th March 2009 is the most accurate up-to-date information available to my Department and is based on returns, as provided by the schools, from a survey of 900 schools in 2007 and subsequently updated in my Department.

It should be noted that a single unit documented on the spreadsheet provided earlier does not purport to be one single classroom. It does however purport to be a single approved "unit" grant-aided by my Department. Single Units can often be made up of prefabs greater than the size of one classroom, e.g. 295m2 unit prefabs returned as one prefab by a school will often house more than one classroom.