Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There was reference to sports halls and the witnesses spoke eloquently about the €8.4 billion under the NDP. If we were to link on from the early years, primary and post-primary, many of the schools on the western seaboard do not have gym facilities that we talk about. I talk about the leaking roof in my school in Portumna, but it is classroom spaces we are supposed to be talking about. Below in New Inn where they are trying to buy a sliver of land, when one goes to the Department, it says it is looking at classroom spaces. How do we marry it to balance the physical well-being of the child and his or her academic needs? How do they view that in the Department of Education and Skills?