Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the second announcement of summer works scheme will be announced; and if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be considered. [18232/14]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Deputy will be aware that on 20th March last I announced that 386 schools have been approved funding under the Summer Works scheme to undertake school improvements. This first round of funding will allow schools to carry out small and medium scale building works across three categories of projects - Gas, Electrical and Mechanical.

A second round of the scheme is expected to be announced in the coming weeks within the context of available funding and in accordance with the prioritisation criteria outlined in the governing Circular Letter for the Scheme. This Circular Letter (59/2013) is available on my Department's website www.education.ie. This round will cover applications for improvement works yet to be assessed, including an application from the school to which the Deputy refers.