Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she received and if she will look favourably upon an application from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo under the summer works scheme given the health and safety grounds; when she will make a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3361/16]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has no record of receiving an application from the school to which he refers under the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) 2016 and 2017. While the school did not apply for any works under the recent SWS, it will be open to the school, if it so decides, to make an application under a future scheme. The Circular Letter (0055/2015) relating to the terms and conditions of the scheme, is available on my Department's website www.education.ie.

Noel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funds that may be available to a school (details supplied ) in County Cork to carry out remedial work to the driveway of a special needs unit within the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3403/16]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application for funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The appropriate funding mechanism for the type of works concerned is the Summer Works Scheme. It is a condition of that Scheme that schools apply for the most urgent works needed at their school. Under the Summer Scheme for 2016/17, the school applied for works to its ceilings.

It is otherwise open to the school to use its Minor Works Grant, which was paid to the school last November, to carry out the works in full or in part as that grant permits.