Jen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats)
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751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount her Department has spent on works under the emergency works scheme in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [12548/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the deputy may be aware, the purpose of the Emergency Works Scheme (EWS) is to provide funding specifically for unforeseen emergencies. It does so by ensuring the availability of funding for urgent works to those schools that are in need of resources as a result of an emergency situation.

An emergency is deemed to be a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or the environment, which is sudden, unforeseen and requires immediate action, and in the case of a school, if not corrected would prevent the school or part thereof from opening. The EWS operates on the basis of the minimal scope of works required to remedy an emergency situation.

Under the EWS in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025, my Department has spent a total of €96.41m as outlined in tabular form below: