Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I support Deputy Catherine Byrne on that issue. Two schools in my area are not on the five year programme, even though one has been waiting for 15 years. One of the prefabs in that school is in a disgraceful condition. In the two schools in question, approximately 400 students have been accommodated in prefabs for a decade. Over the years I have tabled a number of parliamentary questions on the issue. Even the work aimed at reaching the stage where an architect takes a first look proceeds at snail's pace. I do not know whether this is by design or because of a lack of resources but the issue also arises that money is not being spent on construction because there are insufficient shovel ready projects. Is anything being done to speed up the various stages, which seem to take years to complete?