Church Hill national school, Cuffesgrange, County Kilkenny, was given a commitment by another Fianna Fáil candidate before the general election that its extension which it needed would materialise if he was returned to the Dáil. It went so far that the principal of the school distributed literature to the pupils requesting their parents to vote for the Fianna Fáil candidate concerned because he was the best man to deliver the extension. That was an abuse of position and pupils were used in order to gain votes.