Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

——but we have made significant inroads and we will continue to build on the success achieved under the last NDP when we delivered over 7,800 building projects. This must be done in an orderly and planned manner and on the basis of the most pressing needs. Projects will be advanced incrementally over time, consistent with the priority attaching to them. This approach is critical to ensuring that schools know that their individual projects will be allowed to proceed, in order of priority, as and when the funding situation allows. This approach will apply to the building project for Our Lady's school under the Department's school building and modernisation programme.

I thank Deputy Hayes for giving us the opportunity to outline the current position and to reassure the House of the Minister's commitment to this project.

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