Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----although I know he said 2015. That in itself provides some glimmer of hope. I will contact the school and relay the request to contact the Department with regard to the pre-qualification of contractors, five weeks prior to the expected date for the submission of the stage 2(b) report. As the Minister is an architect, he might explain that in simpler English so that we all fully understand what is meant.

Scoil Bhríde had been at the planning permission stage. Owing to the town's population increase in recent years, two major secondary schools - a new CBS and convent, and Portlaoise College run by the VEC - have been completed in Portlaoise,. We have the best suite of modern secondary schools of any town in the country completed in recent years.

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