Ciarán Cannon (Fine Gael)

Effectively, that is a resounding "No". The school is obviously not being assigned a very high priority within the Department's overall plan. I am not making any accusations against the Minister of State but he stated the schools building programme should be carried out in a structured and coherent manner. All that is being offered to this school, which was described by his colleague, Deputy Michael Kitt, in January 2007 as the worst school he had ever seen, with small overcrowded classrooms creating a serious health and safety hazard, is to continue to apply for a summer works scheme to do patchwork on what is a seriously substandard building. That has been the response with which I am very disappointed. I despair of the wisdom of suggesting that a school should continue to spend €1,728 per month on renting two prefabs as a long-term solution when that money being more wisely invested on a permanent solution would be the preferable outcome.