School Facilities
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-23
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Noel McCarthy (FG), Cork East

I thank the Minister for her response. I thank her and her Department officials for recently meeting councillor Anthony Barry, Rory Cocking and me to discuss this matter. It is encouraging to hear at first hand from the Department that the expectation remains that access to the green area will be granted to all campus schools for recreational purposes. Entrance and access works to the green area have been approved, as the Minister said, by Cork County Council, but these works have yet to be completed. We are now nearly in May and it would be highly beneficial to all if these works were undertaken to ensure that access to the green area is in place for the upcoming school year in September. With this in mind, will the Minister confirm whether she has had any further recent engagement with the ETB and the schools on the matter and the status of the access works to be completed?

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Sitting date: 2026-04-23