James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for a much needed extension to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41560/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that my Department has received an application for prefab replacement and other ancillary works from the school referred to by the Deputy.

As the Deputy may be aware, it is my intention to replace purchased school prefab accommodation with permanent accommodation, where the need is established, over the lifetime of my Department's capital programme. A funding provision of €180 million is being made available from 2019 for this initiative in the programme. In that regard, my Department has advised the school, in question, that its application can be considered further under the programme at that stage.

In relation to the other works referred to, the school may use its minor works grant, which all primary schools received last November, to carry out remedial works in full or on a phased basis as that grant permits, should the school consider them to be a priority.