Seán Conlan (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details on money spent on capital grants for refurbishment and improvement of existing school buildings, by category, in voluntary secondary schools, community and comprehensive schools and education and training boards schools that were formerly under the vocational education committees, since 1 January 2010; if the details will include the average amount spent per school in the three categories of schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15898/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Expenditure incurred on large scale extension and refurbishment projects over the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2014 in the post-primary sector amounted to just over €214.4m broken down as follows:

Education and Training Board Schools - €69.278 million

Secondary Schools - €131.810 million

Community and Comprehensive Schools - €13.302 million.

The number of large scale extension and refurbishments projects completed is:

Education and Training Board Schools - 8

Secondary Schools - 14

Community and Comprehensive Schools - 3

Total 25

The 25 completions does not take account of projects completed prior to 1 January 2010 that incurred expenditure post 2010 or projects that are underway but not yet completed.