Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister understand people's cynicism about this decision-making process when they hear that in November 2006 his predecessor, Deputy Hanafin, gave the green light to six of the 43 schools to which he gave the green light on 12 February? The Minister is worse than Paul Daniels, saying "now you see it, now you do not". This is an extraordinary situation, six of the 43 projects were re-announced three years later.

The education partners and schools around the country have no confidence in the decision-making process that results in the list the Minister produces at various times during the year. I am glad that the Minister will now give us the website, warts and all, as he promised he would do before Christmas. The process of selecting schools must be much more open and transparent because the cynicism in the education community is well-justified when even on the Minister's admission six of the 43 schools were given the green light three years ago but nothing happened.

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