William Aird (Laois, Fine Gael)
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367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown, by county, of the €90 million investment package for the 2026 Climate Action Summer Works announced in November 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29247/26]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The purpose of the Climate Action Summer Works Scheme (CASWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis that, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The CASWS operates on a multi-annual basis across a number of categories of works. The new CASWS closed for applications on the 30th June 2025 and a total of 1,430 schools made applications under the scheme.

In November 2025, my colleague the former Minister, Helen McEntee TD, announced the first tranche of approvals under the new Climate Action Summer Works Scheme (CASWS). 297 projects were approved to proceed in 2026, this included 99 remaining projects from the previous Summer Works Scheme. The investment in the first tranche of applications is in the region of €90m.

The full list of applications approved for 2026 can be found under Summer Works Scheme List of Approved Schools 2026 (assets.gov.ie/static/documents/967d0eae/CASWS_Approvals_version_4.pdf), a summary of the Climate Action Summer Works Scheme on a county-by-county basis has been provided in the table below.

As all the schools approved under the first tranche of approvals are yet to go to open tender for their individual projects it is not possible to provide details of funding being allocated to each school as it could influence that tendering process.