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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...on her behalf. This provides me with the opportunity to clarify the position in relation to the Department of Education's plans for upgrading school buildings, including St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, County Laois. The Deputy may be aware that St. Fergal's College is a multidenominational, co-educational, post-primary school in the town of Rathdowney. In 2022, the school had an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. This is about playing catch-up. This is about the children of Rathdowney and south Laois having the same opportunities and facilities as everyone else. As I said, the school opened in 1937. My father went there in the 1940s and those classrooms are still there. I welcome the fact the new classrooms were approved. This is welcomed by all and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: I hear the Deputy loud and clear. He wants St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, to be provided with a PE hall in the interests of equity and he wants me to take that message back to the Minister, Deputy Foley. I will do that. The current situation is that the existing additional schools accommodation scheme does not include provision for PE halls and yet the national development plan is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (14 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...them would be here. I trust that the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, will take back the information and see that it is followed up on. The issue I want to raise is St. Fergal's College in Rathdowney, founded in 1937. It still does not have a physical education, PE, hall 86 years later. It is the only secondary school in the county that does not have a PE hall. In 2010, the...