Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know the staff, management and the team are working hard on it. I am saying to the Minister, and through him the Department of Education and Skills, that we must see this progress as quickly as possible. The patience of the staff, students, parents and management has not been rewarded in the past. It was approved in 2014, yet here we are five years later and we are not much further forward. We can have no more of that. We need to see the new permanent building delivered. It is a great school. Its development from new in 2001 was a good initiative to divide the very large numbers in Carndonagh community school at the time. However, it is a massive failure on the part of the Department that we are here without the permanent buildings finished some 18 or 19 years later. I ask the Minister and Department to give every priority in coming months to ensuring there is no slippage in the various stages of the process to getting to tender and to construction.

The students, parents, teachers and management deserve to have modern facilities, including an up-to-date canteen, gym and rooms that offer good conditions for teaching and learning. It is essential that these be delivered now and without any further delay.

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