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

Is the rising cost in the building sector in general a concern to the Minister? Does he need to alert his Government colleagues about that in terms of funding? Will it impact on the number of schools to be built? Will schools that are on the list not get built because other projects have cost too much? One school in particular was advised by officials that the money had run out on another project and so its one could not be built. This is the type of talk that goes around, but it is based on reality.

Could the Government use the European Fund for Strategic Investments, the Junker plan, to access funding for school building? I am thinking of it as an alternative source of funding because we need more buildings than the budget currently allows for.

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