Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

It meant a great amount of work for parents and boards of management but they did it willingly. In many cases, when they did up the school, they went out and collected considerable extra money that allowed them to provide libraries, extensions and all sorts of other things that were never planned by the Department of Education and Skills. There are now fantastic facilities in schools because we looked to the very ethos of those communities, which is "give us the money and we will spend it efficiently and in a satisfactory way".

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