Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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It is just that I am dealing with one particular case, which I do not want to go into because the school has other issues as well. The officials think that the only way they are going to be able to secure a school hall is by pairing with a local GAA club and applying for sports capital grants. It seems crazy that Government funding is there but they are now going to have to engage with an outside entity that will give control over elements of the school building or school campus. It is a real gap. Mr. Loftus said it will go into the overall NDP priorities. To be honest, that sounds like a category for the miscellaneous. There needs to be a specific programme. Let us identify the schools that do not have it to see how many there are and give them a process. I am not saying that everybody would get it in the first year. I know of a school that is 50 years old. It is in good condition. It has lots of positives. It is a great school, but there is no hope for it ever having a PE hall. That just seems like a failure in policy.