Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

They are not stopped from suggesting there might be physical infrastructure problems but it is not a core part of their function to examine the physical infrastructure. A lot of the money that was in the last five-year plan was allocated to address demographic factors and therefore to schools for children in areas of growing population. I understand we will have more funding in the next plan for existing schools where there is overcrowding, etc. I visit schools all time and regularly go into classrooms where I am told and can see that there is not enough space for the children. We want to focus on those areas in our next building programme.

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