Vincent P Martin (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his response and for deputising for the Minister, Deputy Foley, who is unavoidably absent today. Many parents are tuned into Oireachtas TV and some are in the Gallery today. They are all speechless because of these inexcusable delays to date.The Minister of State's response lacks detail. It does not give the parents the concrete information or the concrete assurances that at this stage they deserve. The local Green Party councillor in Naas, Bob Quinn, is also a parent. They are all so justifiably frustrated. When will the fiasco end, when will the haemorrhaging of our Exchequer funds come to a conclusion and when will we get this job done? The schoolkids deserve better. The school has a beautiful, promising shell of a building. It has been lying idle for more than seven years and there is still no finishing post we can see such that we can say for sure when this will happen or bring this sorry saga to an end. It is a lovely building and the students deserve better.