Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Commencement Matters

Schools Building Projects Status

10:30 am

Photo of Lorraine Clifford LeeLorraine Clifford Lee (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We do not have an update on the position. There is a draft report. When will the school get sight of that draft report? What is the next stage? When will the next stage take place? When will St. Molaga's have its actual school building? This has been going on for far too long. The new prefab to which the Minister of State referred is to facilitate the reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio so that a few classes have gone into the new prefabs but the vast majority of the students and teachers are working out of these prefabs that are 18 years old, and beyond repair at this stage, despite the best efforts of the principal and staff. It is completely unacceptable for the situation to go on. They need the school building. Supplying additional new prefabs is putting a sticking plaster on the issue. It is not acceptable and it is costing more money. It is discommoding everybody in the school and they are at breaking point.

I am not happy at all with the Minister of State's answer.

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