Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)

St. Farnan's Post Primary School in Prosperous. It has been oversubscribed for three years, putting serious pressure on the delivery of secondary school education in Prosperous and the surrounding area. Temporary accommodation, including a science lab, woodwork room, two classrooms, toilets and an office were coming up from a school in Monasterevin but that is only going to meet the needs of this coming year. This project has been in preplanning with the devolved section since last October and the delay is extremely frustrating. The school had been expecting to get this accommodation at the end of August but it has now been told that will not be until November. Without progress, the 1,000-pupil school is going to be facing the same crisis again and again. I urge the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to escalate this with her Department to ensure that the specialist units are served and delivered as a priority. We have to make sure that St. Farnan's will be safely able to deliver the education our secondary school children need in north Kildare.

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