School Accommodation
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Alison Comyn (FF), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I thank the Minister of State for outlining what, I am afraid, we already knew, which is the very long and varied history of this particular school dating back to 2013, which I did not even mention. This has been 12 years in the pipeline. I note the Minister of State's response and the commitment from the Department on providing schools but there is no mention of this particular school. What they want to know is the timeline for this school. Diggers were supposed to have been on-site last summer but that did not happen. They went back and made compromises to try to provide a school and they need to know. They are no further down the line. The Minister of State has not mentioned when it is going to go ahead, when a builder is going to be chosen and when they will have diggers on the site. That is exactly what the parents, the staff and, most importantly, the pupils want to know. They are in dire need of new classrooms but I am still no clearer as to when that is going to happen.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09