Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised)
10:40 am
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
I wish to make a quick point. There has been great progress and I can see it in my constituency but an issue I was wondering about is that some schools are left with a significant number of prefab buildings. When I go to the school, I can see that the conditions of the prefabs are not acceptable but these schools are not getting onto the five-year building programme because it is not considered that they fit in within the developing area, even though they are taking students from a developing area. Has the issue of school buildings that are not up to scratch been looked at?
On programme D3, which is to do with building in primary and post primary schools, what is the reason that the current expenditure is reducing?
Is that because the capital is going up? Are the two related? Deputy O'Brien might want to come in on that.
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