Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can secure, as a matter of extreme urgency, the soonest possible date for the commencement of accessibility works in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51081/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The school to which the Deputy refers applied for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) to carry out Special needs facilities /Universal access works.

I wish to inform the Deputy that these works have been approved and the school has been notified.

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department does not provide funding for upgrade of traffic management or access to school sites outside of any works required as part of a wider school building project.

Individual school authorities are responsible, in the first instance, for ensuring the safety and welfare of children and others in their care, including traffic management measures.

The issue of road safety measures outside the vested site areas of schools, such as road signage, traffic calming measures etc., is a matter that should be raised in the first instance with the relevant Local Authority. Local Authorities have the power to decide on road safety measures outside schools and should ensure that measures are in place to protect the safety of local school children.