Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant will be paid to primary and post-primary schools during this calendar year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17915/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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A Minor Works Grant issued to primary schools last November for the school year 2013/2014. Circular letter 0062/2013 which was published as the Minor Works Grant issued last November states that "the grant will only be paid in future years as funding permits".

The Deputy will be aware that under the Investment and Capital Investment Programme 2012-2016, the focus in the education sector is on meeting the demand for additional school places. Consequently, there is no funding provided at this time in the 2014 capital allocation for the payment of a Minor Works Grant to primary schools.

With regards to a comparable provision for post-primary schools, no Minor Works Grant has ever issued to that sector.