The INTO has identified 78 schools as unfit for habitation, stating that staff and pupils in those schools were under threat from unhygienic, damp conditions, overcrowding and, in some cases, rat infestations or worse. That is the reality. A school in my constituency received promises which have come to nothing. I am talking about Moyglass national school where nothing has happened despite a firm undertaking in writing from the Minister's office that this school had been given the go-ahead and work could commence immediately. Some 40 schools in County Galway – the second highest population centre after Dublin – are in urgent need of attention.