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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will come back to the Minister on the three-school campus on another day. In respect of the issue before us, she mentioned the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, but she is the Minister for Education. I want to be clear. Is she saying that in the days ahead, her Department is going to issue a letter of intent to the proposed contractor? Will that be followed very quickly by the signing of a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I thank the Deputy. I absolutely understand and appreciate the importance of the provision of a new build for a school. I recognise the importance of such provision in the interests of the school community, including the staff, students and the wider school community, comprising parents and the wider community. It is for that reason this project has moved, as I said. We received the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Schools Building Projects

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on when construction will commence on new school buildings (details supplied). [16349/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question is about when construction on a new school building in Scoil Íosagáin, Buncrana, will finally commence. The school has been waiting approximately 20 years now for this to happen. I cannot stress enough how appalling the conditions within the school buildings are. The Minister has been sent an email from the board of management containing more than 100 pages of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: At the outset, I will say that I am very familiar with this particular school. The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, has raised this with me on a number of occasions, so I am very invested in bringing this over the line. I know that is the Deputy’s view also. The project that has been referenced by the Deputy is included in the Department’s construction programme, which will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am struggling to find words here. I have just told the Minister that a 114-page document has been sent to her. I have seen it and it contains photographic evidence of the absolutely appalling conditions that teachers and children have to endure. Planning permission was lost because two contractors did not proceed to tender stage. There has been a lack of urgency in the Minister’s...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: There is no lack of urgency here; I want that to be very clear. This project has moved at pace under the last four years of this Government. As I have said, under the next phase of the school building programme, individual school building projects will be authorised to proceed to construction, subject to an assessment of tender reports and relevant due diligence by the Department’s...