Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a modular unit that is required to facilitate increased enrolment will be sanctioned for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63418/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy the Department had strong delivery across the school building programme in 2022 with a high volume of projects at construction.

My Department's Planning & Building Unit is assessing its overall requirements for 2023 and associated work programme and will revert to the school authority in the coming weeks with further information on the progression of their project.

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a modular unit that is required to facilitate increased enrolment will be sanctioned for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63419/22]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm that my Department recently received an application for capital funding, under the Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme, from the school authority referred to by the Deputy. 

On completion of the assessment process, the school authority will be contacted directly with a decision.

The purpose of the Additional Schools Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special education classroom accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year and where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.

This situation can arise where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes or where a major building project is in the pipeline and an immediate short term accommodation problem has arisen.