171. Deputy Noel Harrington asked the Minister for Education and Skills the funds that may be available to a school (details supplied ) in County Cork to carry out remedial work to the driveway of a special needs unit within the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3403/16]

My Department's Planning and Building Unit has no record of receiving an application for funding from the school to which the Deputy refers. The appropriate funding mechanism for the type of works concerned is the Summer Works Scheme. It is a condition of that Scheme that schools apply for the most urgent works needed at their school. Under the Summer Scheme for 2016/17, the school applied for works to its ceilings.

It is otherwise open to the school to use its Minor Works Grant, which was paid to the school last November, to carry out the works in full or in part as that grant permits.