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

The situation is that the school building programme is powering ahead. I have never seen more new schools built in the country or new schools extended than I have in the last couple of years. It has gone over budget for lots of reasons. The Department of Education's school building programme has gone over budget. It needs additional money to proceed with these projects. It will be getting additional money to proceed with these projects but the exact details and the costings have to be worked out. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Implementation and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, are working on that at the moment and I believe they will come to a conclusion quite soon.

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