Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the component of capital investment spent in the past five years and the component to be spent in the next five years on Gaelscoileanna. [1286/16]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Capital funding provided to Gaelscoileanna (primary sector) in the period 2011 to 2015 is as follows:

2011 - €23.6m

2012 - €22.6m

2013 - €19.9m

2014 - €30.9m

2015 - €33.6m

I refer the Deputy to the announcement last September of the Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2016-2021. Over the next six years some €3.8bn in direct funding will be invested in education projects. An additional €200m in PPP funding over the life time of the capital programme will result in more than €4bn in public investment.

As the investment in the primary and post-primary sectors over the period 2016-2021 will involve the provision of permanent school places under the Large Scale Projects Programme, the Additional Accommodation Programme and the Prefab Replacement Initiative as well as expenditure on site acquisitions, ICT investment, summer works schemes, emergency works, the issue of the minor works grant and other smaller programmes, it is not possible over such a range of programme delivery to determine likely expenditure in next five years on Gaelscoileanna.