Jen Cummins
Ceist:394. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on capital projects across schools in Dublin south central. [70887/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraThursday, 11 December 2025
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Since 2020, my department has invested over €6 billion in our schools throughout the country under the National Development Plan, involving the completion of over 1,300 school building projects. Over €52m has been invested in school in Dublin South Central in that period. This investment has supported the completion of 12 school building projects. Currently 7 projects are in construction.
In July the Government announced a capital allocation of €7.55 billion for the Department of Education and Youth for the period 2026-2030 under the National Development Plan. As part of this NDP allocation my department will place a strong emphasis on provision for children with special educational needs, with a particular focus on meeting annual school place needs.
In relation to project rollout for Large-Scale projects and Additional School Accommodation scheme projects, the approach will be to continue to maximise the capacity of the existing school estate as much as possible in the first instance and provide necessary additional capacity through targeted and prioritised project rollout over the course of 2026 to 2030 period to meet the most urgent and prioritised needs.
The NDP Implementation Plan for the Education and Youth sector will be published next week and the first tranche of projects to progress to construction will be published in January.
The current status of all projects is set out on my department’s website at www.gov.ie. This is updated on a regular basis to reflect project progress through the various stages of capital appraisal, site acquisition, design, tender and construction.