Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am sure the Minister appreciates the entire debacle has been a devastating blow to the community, which has waited 30 years for its own secondary school in one of the most rapidly expanding urban parts of Dublin. I wants to know who is at fault. When I tabled the question 18 months ago, I was told the tender documentation and the architectural planning was at an advanced stage. The Minister now tells me that eight months later there was a fault in that, which meant another tendering process had to kick in. Who is on the design team? To whom are they answerable? Who pays? At present, the people paying are the students in Lusk who are not getting the same calibre of education as their peers because they are in overcrowded classrooms. We know there is an overreliance on prefabs, a high density of students congregating in the one communal area and insufficient class sizes for specialised subjects. A year ago, the Department stated the laboratory facilities were inadequate for the number of classes. The number of classes is now even greater. It is not much solace that it will probably be delivered in 2018 when people thought and were assured it should have been developed in 2016. To whom is the design team answerable and who is at fault for the incomplete documentation submitted in July 2016?

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