Seanad debates
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Order of Business
11:00 am
Ivor Callely (Fianna Fail)
I simply wish to record my support for Senator O'Donovan and to point to my knowledge of the Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay areas. I hope the Senator is successful in his endeavours.
Will the Leader organise a debate on the schools building programme? A school in my constituency, St. John the Baptist's junior boys school in Clontarf, is in need of replacement classrooms. The current prefabricated facilities have been in use long past their life expectancy. When the Taoiseach announced the expenditure measures last Tuesday, he indicated that €300 million was to be reprioritised for the schools building programme. I hope St. John the Baptist's school will be accommodated in this reprioritisation and that we will have a better understanding——
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