Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Dillon for raising this important issue and for advocating on behalf of Davitt College. I can give him the assurance that we will sort this out. There are a number of school projects across the country, including in my own constituency, that either have planning permission or have already gone to tender and the tender has been awarded. We have run into a difficulty. The Department of Education is doing a brilliant job at building new schools and extending others. Because of the increase in construction costs, the money has begun to run out. We are going to have to allocate additional capital to it and the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, are working on the details of that. We should be able to sort it out before the Easter break.

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