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

I thank the Minister for her reply. The extension for these two rooms was approved in 2020; it is now 2023. We are three years on and the Minister cannot tell me today when a sod will be turned on the project. She cannot tell me today that in the first week of September or late August when the children go back to the school that it will have these two new classrooms in place. We will probably be looking at a four-year wait. I would like a date for this. The children and parents of Coomhola, the school and the board of management deserve to be treated better than having two cold and damp classrooms in Portakabins. I accept there is movement but it has been three years and now it looks like it could be four years. This is not acceptable to the people of west Cork. They should not be treated like second-class citizens. I appeal to the Minister to give me a date for when the works will start and end.

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