Tony McCormack (Offaly, Fianna Fail)

St. Brendan's Community School in Birr is facing ongoing uncertainty around long-promised works, including an ASD wing and a major school extension. This project was first approved in 2018. Since then, the school has moved through various stages but the works have not begun. Most recently, the school was told the project could not proceed until the national development plan implementation programme was published. For a school that has already waited seven years, this is yet another frustrating delay. Parents, children and the people of Birr and the surrounding areas have waited long enough. They deserve more than repeated hold-ups and changing times. Can the Taoiseach explain why an already approved project is now subject to further delay? How does he believe the new infrastructure reform plan will help to expedite this project? I ask him for his support in getting this project started.

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