Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Can I interrupt Mr. Loftus, and I am sorry, Chair; I know I am way over my time. Does the Department do something like a play space audit? I will give an example. It is not the case anymore, but the school I spent 11 years in did not have a yard. Children went home for lunch and they used to cross a very busy thoroughfare to go home for lunch. These were primary school children. Mr. Loftus spoke about the carbon audit and that is completely legitimate and laudable, but does the Department have a play space audit? If you go by a school, how do you know it is a school? The children are playing. Are there things like that in the mindset of the building unit of the Department? It allows the children to play at school. I found it unbelievable that I was teaching in a school where there was no capacity for the children to play and they had to go home for lunch.