Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On schools, there is a commitment in the plan to do away with temporary accommodation within schools but arising from a question to the Department of Education and Skills, and I accept that is not the Minister's Department, it did not even have a list of all the schools in Donegal that are in temporary accommodation so how can we expect that it will deal with the problem?

That leads me to the question of whether the funding projections are correct. What role does the Minister's Department play in terms of dealing with other Departments to make sure they have the right figures?

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