Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)

I thank the Minister of State for conveying the written response from the Department. A lot of it is a copy-and-paste job of what was circulated in June of this year. To be very clear, there is no update in this response from the Department, that is zero update as to what is happening the new school building. There is no plan B apparent in the Minister of State's response here. For a school to have been told repeatedly that all efforts were going to be made by the Department to get this new school building built, I see no detail in the response, other than bland general assurances that the Department is doing all it can. That is not good enough. The parents, staff and most crucially the pupils of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire deserve answers from the Department. This school has had to move into a second temporary building, its second in 20 years, because of the Department's incompetence in managing this process. There have been commitments that the project will be completed by 2027, given verbally earlier this year. Is the project going to be completed by mid-2027 to allow the school community to move into its new school building in Dominick Street, Dublin 1?

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