Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)

I appreciate that in terms of need, the budget and so on, but the point is that there is such a demand for the amalgamation of the two schools. It appears there is a one-size-fits-all, arbitrary metric when it comes to the capital infrastructure project.

Will the Minister consider meeting me and the school principals to hear some of the issues that the schools are experiencing outlined for her and consider some funding for the schools to amalgamate? There is a significant need for it to happen in terms of education. I ask the Minister, along with officials in her Department, to please meet me and the schools’ principals to discuss the consultation that so people in Claremorris and, indeed, in the Minister’s Department spent so many hours on. Will she meet me and the schools to discuss this project?

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