The Minister for Education, Noel Dempsey, has announced details of the School Building Programme for this year.
The Minister said his Department was for the first time publishing a list which spelt out very clearly all current and planned school building projects.
Minister Dempsey said he was doing this to do away with suspicions in the past that the building programme was being decided on a political basis.
In November, the Government estimates cut the school building programme by 4% - a real cut of 10% when inflation in the construction industry is taken into account.
The 2003 programme will deliver 149 large-scale projects at primary and post-primary level. In addition approximately 433 schools will benefit in some way from the capital programme.
To read the programme, click here.
The General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation had demanded an increase in the budget for building works on primary schools.
John Carr said no child should have to go to school in dilapidated, unsuitable and run down buildings.
He said €250m was needed each year over the next ten years to provide children with the schools they deserve.
