Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I think there is a public spending code that applies when costs exceed a certain figure. That was certainly the case in respect of the student accommodation in Maynooth and it stopped that building, but there were other contractual issues in respect of that. I am dealing with a similar case that is not a million miles away and is not yet even on the building programme, namely, St. Raphael’s Special School, which is housed in prefabs that are disintegrating. It is important for us to get an overview of why this happens. There is a convoluted system of getting to the various stages before schools are allowed to build, and it is not just these 58 schools. Any other schools that are on that building programme are going to be worried about what the impediment will be to getting to the next stage. Certainly, in my constituency-----