51 extra schools added to Summer Work Scheme

MORE than 50 schools have been added to the Department of Education’s Summer Works Scheme for a range of repairs and other projects to be carried out during the school holidays.

Education Minister Ruairí Quinn has secured almost €5 million, in addition to the €71m already allocated to the scheme, bringing the total number of schools to benefit to almost 880.

The Irish Examiner has learned that 40 primary and 11 second-level schools who appealed their exclusion from earlier phases of the scheme, will find out today that their appeals have been successful.