Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that the purpose of my Department's Additional School 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 or at other schools in an area.

Where there is a need for accelerated delivery of such accommodation my Department utilises Modern Methods of Construction, including my Department's Modular Accommodation Framework, to meet the accommodation need. My Department has additionally put Project Management provision in place to support schools in the expedited delivery of this accommodation.

My Department has a large pipeline of projects for delivery under the school building programme, including in the Dublin 9 area.

Since 2020, my Department has invested in the region of €4.3 billion in our schools throughout the country, including the completion of over 750 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 34 new school buildings.

School building projects at construction involve an overall State investment of over €1.2 billion. We also have a large modular accommodation programme delivering urgently needed school places.

This is a record level of investment in our schools and highlights the Government’s very strong track record of delivery in providing additional capacity and modern facilities for our school communities.

Details of large-scale and ASA projects being delivered under the school building programme may be viewed on my Department's website at, www.gov.ie and this information is updated regularly. In addition, a list of large-scale projects completed from 2010 to date may also be viewed on the website.

Attached in tabular form is a list of schools in the Santry, Whitehall and Dublin 9 area, where funding has been provided for works, including upgrades to their school buildings, through my Department's Planning and Building Unit which includes, but is not limited to the ASA, Summer Works and Emergency Works Schemes. Each of these schemes serves a different purpose from emergency interim remedial measures, to upgrades of existing accommodation and to the provision of new accommodation and the spend in the table below gives an indication of the breadth of my Department’s investment in both existing and new school infrastructure.

Roll Number	School Name	Amount spent since 2019
04992R	SCOIL AN CROI NAOFA	.43m
11525A	ST PATRICKS NS	1.27m
14980Q	GLASNEVIN NS	.14m
15895H	DRUMCONDRA NS	.04m
16177F	LINDSAY ROAD NATIONAL SCHOOL 16177F	.05m
16659A	ST COLUMBAS CON G&I	.66m
16753P	ST VINCENT DE PAUL GIRLS SCHOOL	.88m
16754R	ST VINCENTS CONVENT INF NS	.54m
16860Q	CORPUS CHRISTI NS	.09m
17318C	LARKHILL SCHOOL	2.43m
18417J	ST JOSEPHS FOR THE BLIND NS	1.11m
18763F	ST MICHAELS HSE SPEC SC	1.91m
18910P	BANTIARNA NA MBUANNA B	.21m
18911R	BANTIARNA NA MBUANNA G	1.01m
19242F	OUR LADY OF VICTORIES	1.61m
19302U	VIRGIN MARY NS	.9m
19303W	VIRGIN MARY SCHOOL	.55m
19316I	ST PAULS HOSP SPEC SCHOOL	.08m
19325J	SCOIL CHIARAIN	1.24m
19845M	NORTH DUBLIN NATIONAL SCHOOL PROJECT	.11m
20015B	GAELSCOIL BHAILE MUNNA	.53m
20154P	BEAUMONT HOSPITAL SPECIAL SCHOOL	.04m
20338C	HOLY CHILD NATIONAL SCHOOL 20338C	.53m
20486R	DRUMCONDRA /MARINO NATIONAL SCHOOL	12.67m
60420L	ARDSCOIL RIS, GRIFFITH AVENUE	.35m
60481I	ST AIDAN'S CBS, WHITEHALL	.87m
60581M	ST KEVINS COLLEGE, EAST FINGLAS	.67m
60690R	DOMINICAN COLLEGE, DRUMCONDRA	1.67m
60840K	MARYFIELD COLLEGE, DRUMCONDRA	2.7m
60870T	OUR LADY OF MERCY, BEAUMOUNT	.1m
70321P	ELLENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE	.13m
76394D	CLONTURK COMMUNITY COLLEGE	17.5m
81017A	TRINITY COMPREHENSIVE	.64m
91344V	ROSMINI COMMUNITY SCHOOL, DROMCONDRA	12.16m

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Since 2020, my Department has invested in the region of €4.3 billion in our schools throughout the country, involving the completion of over 800 school building projects with construction currently underway at approximately 300 other projects, which includes 33 new school buildings.

These 300 projects currently at construction involve a total State investment of over €1.2bn.

There are also approximately 90 projects currently at the tender stage including a further 28 new school buildings. All these new school buildings are flagship projects in their area and transform the education infrastructure for those school communities.

This is a record level of investment in our schools and highlights the Government’s very strong track record of delivery in providing additional capacity and modern facilities for our school communities.

The key drivers of capital investment in the school's sector include:

• demographic growth, particularly at post primary level
• increased demand for special educational needs provision
• alignment of school place provision with new housing development
• climate action objectives including deep energy retrofit.

Since 2019, 20 school building projects were completed in Dublin, of which 1 was in the Whitehall/Santry/Dublin 9 area. The project is detailed below:

Roll Number	School Name	Project Brief	Year Complete	Overall Project Cost
20486R	Gracepark ETNS, Drumcondra, Dublin 9	New 16 Classroom school plus 2 Classroom SEN	2020	c. €12.6m

The status of all projects and completions are listed on a county-by-county basis at www.gov.ie and is updated on a regular basis to reflect their progress through the various stages of capital appraisal, site acquisition, design, tender and construction.