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

In response to questions I asked in the House in 2017, and in March of this year, during my engagement on Leaders' Questions with the Taoiseach's stand-in, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, I was told the Department of Education and Skills had given a green light on 2 December 2017 to four mainstream classrooms and two resource teaching rooms for St. Brogan's college, a secondary school in Bandon, and that in the interim temporary classrooms would be approved immediately.

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Were the people of Bandon and its surrounds misled? Not a shovel has been turned or a temporary classroom put in place in this project thus leaving a similar crisis for parents and staff in St. Brogan's college this year, where dozens of children will not be accommodated. The people of Bandon and its surrounds want an honest answer today. When will St. Brogan's college see the temporary classrooms put in place and why has no progress been made on the four mainstream classrooms and two resource teaching rooms as was promised to the people in 2017?

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