Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an emergency work scheme for schools with an emergency need for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15204/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Funding is available to school authorities to carry out emergency works under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme and full details of the terms and conditions of the scheme are available on my Department's website www.education.ie.

The main purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme is to ensure the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are most in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation or on receipt of an enrolment application from a special needs pupil.

An emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or the environment, which is sudden, unforeseen and requires immediate action and in the case of a school, if not corrected would prevent the school or part thereof from opening.