andMr. Daly asked the Minister for Education when it is proposed to carry out the necessary repairs to Leitrim national school.

The Deputies may be aware that in a statement which I made in the Dáil in October, 1973 I said that grants would not in future be made for extensive reconstruction or improvement of one-teacher or two-teacher national schools.

Leitrim national school is a two-teacher school and an application for a grant towards the cost of its improvement, estimated at £5,000, has been under consideration in my Department.

I regret that I am not in a position to make an exception in this case to the general policy in relation to grants for improvements to small schools.