Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Very briefly, as I am renowned for. If we are talking about the schools building programme, it has been brought to my attention - I have spoken to the Minister about this previously - that at times there can be issues with communication. Some of that is that the schools would say the power they had previously or their involvement was greater with regard to running these jobs. An example that was given to me today was Scoil Mhuire na nGael. When a yard was being finished and a stone finish was being put in for aesthetics, the school pointed out straight away that this would not work. It was told that was the way it was. Now it is being dealt with and looked at. There will be a cost. One can imagine the particular issue with regard to health and safety and so on. We just have to find a better way of doing this.

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