€40m for summer repairs at 386 schools

Schools attended by almost 100,000 children will benefit from improvement works which are to be funded over the summer holidays.

The reintroduction of the summer works scheme (SWS) for primary and second-level schools by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is to see €40m being allocated, and he announced details of projects worth €36m yesterday.

They will be carried out at 386 schools across 26 counties, ranging from two each in Leitrim and Sligo to 48 in Cork and 56 in Dublin. Around a quarter are second-level schools and among these are almost 30 in the capital.