Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am looking for a general update on the schools capital programme. A schools capital programme was announced in 2015 with huge fanfare. That fanfare was not the Minister's fault but it only returns capital spending to pre-2011 levels by 2019 so we have a good bit to go. What also concerns me is the cost of projects. While this had gone down during the recession, it seems that it is going up. What, if anything, can be done about this?

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