Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the future of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 which is currently in a rented building and receiving only a small proportion of its funding from the State but is growing year on year and requires considerable works to its premises. [10494/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has provided significant funding to enhance the accommodation currently occupied by the school to which he refers. The school is located in a former primary school and I am pleased to confirm that my Department provided in excess of €360,000 in 2010 for heating upgrade and improvement works to toilet facilities under the Emergency Works and Summer Works Schemes.

In addition, my Department also grant aids the rental of the existing school accommodation at a cost of €85,000 per annum. In light of further funding being made available under the Jobs Initiative, a number of projects submitted under the 2011 Summer Works Scheme by primary and post-primary schools, including the school referred to by the Deputy, will be considered further. My Department will be writing to schools that will be included in this latest round of funding in the near future.