Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The witnesses are welcome. I start by asking about the Mercy Convent in Naas, County Kildare. The school build started in 2017, the year the current sixth class started school, and the school will not be complete for another two years. Is that the longest there has been? The school has no PE hall as a consequence of being accommodated in prefabs. There is somewhere in the region of €400,000 per year being spent on security for the site. It looks from the outside and from a distance like the school is complete, but it is the fit-out and the internal work that need to be done. When does the Department expect the school to be open? Are there other situations where security is being paid for or is it normally the contractor that provides security as part of the contract?