James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The clock is ticking and I want to make one thing crystal clear. The model being used by the Department at present for the determination of where new schools are required is utterly flawed. Three and four years hence in east Cork, when the Department continues its current plan, which is not to construct a new additional secondary school in that area to serve the needs of the area, that model is going to fail. Extension after extension have been put onto approximately nine schools in the east Cork area over the past ten years, and they are all full. In the case of one school there are 600 pupils in prefabs. I am sure Mr. Loftus is aware of that in Carrigtwohill.