Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government states the Government is committed to delivering a schools capital programme for extensions and refurbishments. Parents of children seeking to go to the hugely popular school, St. Brogan's of Bandon, have been on tenterhooks for the last number of months as it looks like it will not be able to take over 50 students seeking admission. Some living just across the road from the school may have to travel 25 km to another school.

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