Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 86: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason grant assistance has been refused in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [36747/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I can confirm that the school to which the Deputy refers had applied to my Department seeking funding to replace temporary accommodation in the school. As the Deputy will be aware, 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. Given the constraints on capital funding, the Government has to prioritise school building projects and the very real need to ensure that every child has access to a school place. It is unlikely, therefore, that funding will be available for the works referred to by the Deputy in the foreseeable future.