Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding applications open to Salerno secondary school to fund the building of a multi-purpose sports and general activities hall at its site on Taylor's Hill in County Galway; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that planning permission has been granted and approved, a significant portion of funding has been raised locally and at present it has to ferry pupils to other such facilities at a great cost to the school and the Department; if there may be a possibility of joint funding a project with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport; and if that option has been investigated by her Department. [49562/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department devolved very significant funding to the school, referred to by the Deputy, in 2010 and 2011 to provide additional general classrooms, specialist rooms and ancillary accommodation to meet the schools accommodation needs.

As the Deputy may be aware, due to the competing demands on my Department's capital budget imposed by the need to prioritise available funding for the provision of essential school classroom accommodation, it is not possible at this point to provide an indicative timeframe for the provision of funding towards a multi-purpose/PE hall for the school concerned.

While my Department is not in a position to prioritise funding for the sports facilities in question, it is open however to the school to apply for funding to the Department referred to by the Deputy.