Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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934. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports and grants available to a local school (details supplied) to complete an infrastructure project for students with additional needs. [19825/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my department has no current record of receiving an application for additional accommodation from the school in question.

The purpose of my department's additional schools accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream classroom and Special Education Needs (SEN) accommodation is available to cater for pupils enrolled each year, where the need cannot be met by the school’s existing accommodation.

At primary level, this situation generally arises to cater for a school’s accommodation requirements where an additional teaching post has been sanctioned by Teacher Allocation Section, or a new SEN class has been sanctioned by the NCSE, and all available alternative accommodation within the school is already being used for classroom purposes.

However, I can confirm to the Deputy that funding for the room referred to is not covered under the remit of this scheme.