Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It relates to benchmarking. Surely the process or system in the Department of Education and Skills could have been streamlined in the last eight years to allow money voted through this House for capital works that are necessary for thousands of school places, and for children and their teachers, to be implemented. We should not be hanging on, halfway through November, because €300 million has yet to be spent by the Department of Education and Skills and may have to be sent back, except for the bit that is retained.

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