Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government commits to a schools capital investment programme to improve facilities. Some of these are funded by public private partnerships, PPPs. The collapse of the British construction company, Carillion, has impacted the completion of six school buildings in this State. Some schools have been waiting for years and operating in very poor conditions, and they need assurances that they can still relocate to their new buildings, as was promised. Carillion is now a textbook example of the failures of outsourcing and privatisation. We need to move beyond this failing model. Shareholders and profit margins should not matter more than schools and students. Will the Taoiseach provide assurances that school buildings and relocations will be completed within the given timeframes, and that further disruption will not be caused to the schedules? Can he guarantee that any other capital projects involving Carillion will proceed within the established timeframes?

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