Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is a significant problem with how we are building and providing schools. This is not just an issue in Dublin South-Central, but the major problems in that constituency are emblematic. Our Lady of Hope School has no PE hall. Setanta Special School was due to be completed in 2020, but the latest date given is now quarter 3 of 2025. It shares rooms with Riverview Educate Together National School, which has no PE hall and is itself pressed for space. There is a refusal by the Department of Education to provide a Gaelcholáiste for Dublin 8 despite there being the numbers for one. Indeed, there is a refusal by the Department to provide any secondary school for Dublin 8 despite the fact that the standards set out by it are met. There is a refusal to provide a Gaelscoil in the Dublin 10 and 12 areas.

I have just raised six or seven issues. The Department of Education is not providing-----

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