Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2025
443. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a breakdown of the funding allocated to schools under the summer works scheme on a county-by-county basis, for the year 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [66050/25]
View answerAs the Deputy may be aware, the purpose of the Summer Works Scheme (SWS) is to enable individual school authorities to undertake small-scale building works on a devolved basis and, ideally, can be carried out during the summer months or at other times that avoid disrupting the operation of the school. The SWS operates on a multi-annual basis for categories of works such as roof works, window replacement, mechanical and electrical works, external works etc..a
Since 2020 my department has provided funding to the value of over €200m under the SWS to schools. The below table sets out the funding provided under the SWS for the years 2020 to date as per the Deputy's request:
|
County |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Sep-25 |
Total Spend |
|
Carlow |
84,158 |
137,977 |
140,056 |
87,653 |
907,476 |
165,987.00 |
1,523,307 |
|
Cavan |
333,439 |
988,340 |
1,728,635 |
691,668 |
154,575 |
- |
3,896,657 |
|
Clare |
1,541,796 |
1,246,604 |
1,104,319 |
471,877 |
336,253 |
454,428.00 |
5,155,277 |
|
Cork |
4,573,742 |
4,183,142 |
5,495,189 |
6,464,914 |
1,810,441 |
3,723,209.00 |
26,250,637 |
|
Donegal |
847,972 |
733,014 |
1,761,250 |
934,760 |
121,330 |
- |
4,398,326 |
|
Dublin |
6,261,874 |
11,232,864 |
18,124,491 |
7,381,527 |
4,503,100 |
3,485,966.00 |
50,989,822 |
|
Galway |
1,614,058 |
2,113,659 |
1,559,949 |
1,437,336 |
255,903 |
622,215.00 |
7,603,120 |
|
Kerry |
966,139 |
1,246,832 |
3,490,391 |
1,853,104 |
307,694 |
13,029.00 |
7,877,189 |
|
Kildare |
743,660 |
1,227,728 |
1,613,371 |
1,398,009 |
819,623 |
292,388.00 |
6,094,779 |
|
Kilkenny |
401,020 |
669,478 |
587,085 |
1,027,853 |
109,153 |
- |
2,794,589 |
|
Laois |
365,426 |
207,121 |
305,585 |
175,644 |
62,996 |
- |
1,116,772 |
|
Leitrim |
119,363 |
182,429 |
785,236 |
191,109 |
10,929 |
- |
1,289,066 |
|
Limerick |
308,334 |
844,531 |
2,234,644 |
1,095,517 |
887,377 |
1,794,046.00 |
7,164,449 |
|
Longford |
174,286 |
906,383 |
2,107,843 |
203,545 |
878,622 |
118,872.00 |
4,389,551 |
|
Louth |
1,005,327 |
284,691 |
1,155,462 |
6,767,866 |
1,014,844 |
- |
10,228,190 |
|
Mayo |
1,227,797 |
868,474 |
867,232 |
1,614,026 |
272,560 |
1,024,293.00 |
5,874,382 |
|
Meath |
666,669 |
628,227 |
1,018,618 |
2,620,882 |
80,670 |
318,106.00 |
5,333,172 |
|
Monaghan |
1,033,891 |
252,596 |
1,435,580 |
3,437,276 |
663,176 |
- |
6,822,519 |
|
Offaly |
142,657 |
410,293 |
619,132 |
182,782 |
266,415 |
- |
1,621,279 |
|
Roscommon |
436,711 |
209,709 |
841,661 |
1,202,882 |
45,618 |
111,315.00 |
2,847,896 |
|
Sligo |
271,046 |
521,356 |
833,111 |
1,143,959 |
278,450 |
1,421,513.00 |
4,469,435 |
|
Tipperary |
2,031,646 |
1,274,855 |
3,047,233 |
2,333,166 |
423,031 |
159,806.00 |
9,269,737 |
|
Waterford |
1,700,188 |
419,008 |
2,212,738 |
1,478,574 |
405,214 |
280,647.00 |
6,496,369 |
|
Westmeath |
524,151 |
966,003 |
709,448 |
114,973 |
939,733 |
3,799.00 |
3,258,107 |
|
Wexford |
1,395,432 |
2,092,513 |
1,376,181 |
435,813 |
2,690,142 |
322,408.00 |
8,312,489 |
|
Wicklow |
790,714 |
747,478 |
815,667 |
1,215,242 |
2,646,240 |
435,723.00 |
6,651,064 |
|
Total |
29,561,495 |
34,595,306 |
55,970,104 |
45,961,955 |
20,891,565 |
14,747,750 |
201,728,175 |
In November 2025 the Minister announced the first tranche of approvals under the new Climate Action Summer Works Scheme. 297 projects were approved to proceed and involve primary, post primary and special schools, along with projects in all counties and across all categories of works. The investment in the first tranche of applications is in the region of €90m.
Under this scheme, approved applications from schools that were not reached for funding or market prioritisation reasons in 2026 will qualify to be assessed for purposes of the funding available for climate action summer works in subsequent years.
Full details of the Climate Action Works Scheme including details of the first tranche of approvals can be found at [gov.ie - Summer Works Scheme]
The funding of €90m recently announced is directed towards 297 projects. in the region of €30m of that funding is directed towards the refurbishment of science labs to support the curricular redevelopment programme. The 297 projects will now progress towards an open tendering process, for this reason providing details of funding per county at this stage could impede the tendering process and cannot be released.
