Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I understand the Deputy is asking a direct question to the Minister for Education on that which she will be best placed to answer. On the broader point on investment in new school places, particularly in the move toward secondary, I recall that in the closing months of last year the Minister for public expenditure and reform, Deputy Donohoe, was at Cabinet agreeing on a significant additional capital payment to the Minister for Education for exactly the point the Deputy raised, namely, to scale up the school building programme. It did get special priority in the Government capital expenditure last year, which signalled real intent in the Government to try to address that school building list.

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