Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Department has told me that it will move on this as fast as it can. This Department of Education really has a good track record on the delivery of capital projects. I think the reason for that is because it has done so many. It has completed 950 projects in the last four years and when you do something many times you begin to get good at it. I noticed that with, for example, Transport Infrastructure Ireland. The TII has built so many motorway bridges and roads that at this stage you can kind of expect that they are going to be able to do things on time and on budget.

I expect that the Department of Education is going to be able to deliver for this school in just the same way it delivered phase 1 last year.The school is growing. The Senator gave a very good description of what is happening there, everything right down to the therapy dog. I got some colour there in what the school is like with its 860 pupils and its inclusive ethos. It is providing already for special education but needs to provide more. I think everybody would be glad to see that there are 1,600 extra SNAs and more than 700 extra special education teachers provided for in the budget. Everything we can do to help St. Brogan's College will be done as soon as possible.