Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

The board of management and the principal were called to Tullamore and told that the school project had been suspended. That word was used. Why was it suspended after going to tender and incurring such an expense? It is being placed in the GRD scheme and, having lost its place, moved from band one to band two, where 350 schools are ahead of it. There is no justification for this. Why was it done to a school with 117 pupils, including a large number of special needs pupils? The principal's office is in the staff toilet. No school in the country, not even in the pressure areas of Dublin, Meath and so on, must endure such conditions.

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