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

There are multiple issues for multiple families throughout County Louth and the wider State.

The Minister of State has supplied me a written answer concerning De La Salle College. The planning permission for the main extension was given on 21 July. Will the Minister of State examine the issue? According to this answer, "The Stage 2b cost report was received by the Department in Q4 2024 and is currently being reviewed". Obviously, that is a mistake, although I do not know whether it should be quarter 4 of 2023 or something else. Regardless, this matter needs to be addressed. I will follow it up with the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins. I assume that the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, will tell them that I am not happy in any way, shape or form. The five families in question have been given no answers and I have received no answers from the NCSE. There is general information about looking in Dunleer and Drogheda despite this issue relating to Dundalk. Talk to Deputy Munster and the other elected representatives from those areas, though, and they will say there is no room at the inn in any of the schools there. None of this is good enough and everything is behind time. We need this matter to be addressed to some degree. There are families being put through significant stress.

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