Seanad debates
Wednesday, 11 December 2002
Primary Education: Motion.
What is going on is wrong. We did this previously in 1987 and it took us years to pull back. The then Minister, a certain Deputy O'Rourke, went to great pains in 1988 or 1989 to double the building programme in order to get us back on track. It took about five or six years to deal with the schools that had lost out in the two-year cutback. We were just about getting there, and just in a position where the Department of Education and Science was saying there were no more lists of schools, and now this has happened. It is wrong. It is regressive. It presents us as a Third World country in modern Europe. It is anathema to those of us who participated in the European debate. It is appallingly embarrassing to show European colleagues the state of some of the schools. There are no other words to describe it.
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