Communications and Natural Resources Dublin West

High Speed Broadband in Schools

• 78 schools have been chosen to take part in a pilot project, sponsored by the Department of Communications and the Education and Skills, and all will have their enhanced bandwidth available to them for the beginning of the next academic year in September next.
• 3 schools in Dublin West were chosen to participate in this programme. They are:
• Castleknock Community College, Carpenterstown Rd., Castleknock, Dublin 15, Ireland.
• Coolmine Community School, Clonsilla,Dublin 15
• Hartstown Community School, Clonsilla, Dublin 15
• The revised Programme for Government includes a commitment to rolling this out nationally to all second level school.

Warmer Homes Scheme:

• The Warmer Homes Scheme (WHS), managed by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), provides energy efficiency improvements to homes in, or at risk of, fuel poverty and is primarily delivered by community based organisations (CBOs) of which 25 have, to date, been approved to provide this service.
• The primary eligibility criteria for receipt of the WHS are that the household is in receipt of a Fuel Allowance from the Department of Social Protection and that the property was constructed prior to 2002.
• 1310 homes in Dublin have availed of this scheme to dat.