Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of completing the prefab replacement scheme in one, two and five years, respectively. [29448/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that it is my Department’s intention to replace purchased temporary accommodation with permanent accommodation, where the need is established, in the context of the long-term accommodation needs of each individual school, over the lifetime of my Department’s 6 Year Capital Programme.

Such accommodation will be replaced as part of major building projects completed under the Department's construction programmes and under my Department's additional accommodation scheme. An enhanced additional funding provision of €180 million is being made available from 2019 to progress this initiative.

It is not possible to calculate a cost estimate taking into account the extent of applications, that the outlay for repalcing temporary accommodation with permanent accommodation will vary from school to school depending on the extent and type of prefab unit, planning copnditions and other site specific costs.