Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the list of new schools in County Clare to be constructed by 2017 as outlined in the recent review of capital spending published recently. [35373/11]

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the list of schools in County Clare to be refurbished by 2017 as outlined in the review of capital spending published recently. [35374/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 90 and 91 together.

The Government's Medium Term Infrastructure and Capital Investment Framework, which was published on 10th November 2011, sets out the demographic challenge facing the education system in the coming years.

Total enrolment in both primary and post-primary schools is expected to grow by almost 70,000 between now and 2018 (over 45,000 at primary level and 25,000 at post primary) and will continue to grow up to at least 2024 at post-primary level. The priority now is to focus on major school projects and smaller projects devolved to schools, including in Co Clare, to meet the demographic demands. The primary aim will be to ensure that every child will have access to a school place.

I have previously committed to publishing details next month of the school building projects, both new schools and extensions, to be constructed in 2012. Early in the new year, I will publish a five year plan outlining the projects, concerned, to be constructed in that time.