Will the Minister of State have an answer by next week? That is all I am looking for. These people have families. They have children and jobs. They want an answer by next week.

Parents in Cork were promised in 2022 that a new special school would be delivered in Carrignavar. Three years later, and only because of the campaign led by parents whose children will have no school place this August, and those parents campaigning and sleeping outside the doors of the Dáil, has the Government finally acted. Now there is work being done. Does the Minister know what was not done? There is no capacity for water treatment. Since 2013, Carrignavar has had no capacity. We are talking about putting a sp…

Yesterday, the Taoiseach made a statement in the Dáil that he could not understand, regarding the €20 million that Cork City Council got for the tenant in situ scheme, where it was gone. I have a report that the chief executive gave to Cork City Council last night at a special meeting called by Sinn Féin. It got unanimous support to write to the Minister for housing to give the money for the 33 families who were sale agreed but are now facing homelessness. Deputy Martin is a Cork Taoiseach. I know a lady in Gurrana…

Sorry. The Taoiseach did not understand.

Those 33 families-----

Can we get a commitment for those 33 families? They are watching the telly now.

This is not a revision of the national planning framework; it is just a tweaking around the edges. It is very disappointing that no analysis has been provided on why the objectives of the original national planning framework have not yet been reached or on how this plan will operate differently. In the Dublin area, €19,000 is spent per capita on the NDP. This compares to just €10,000 in the Cork metropolitan area. All of the planning frameworks in the world are worth nothing if the money to implement them ignores t…

The Taoiseach will have seen the campaign run by parents to get special school places for their children both nationally and in Cork. They have fought a Trojan campaign. There was an announcement last week that there would be additional places but it is an absolute scandal that parents must go out and fight for their children's right to an education. In 2022, there was an announcement for the new special school in Carrignavar in County Cork. There is now a fear that this school will not be open in September and may…

Yes.

Taoiseach, it was Irish Water-----

It is Irish Water that cannot facilitate this. There is no capacity in Carrignavar.

Gabhaim buíochas. Officials from Uisce Éireann met with Cork City Council last night. They refused to attend the meeting if it was in public and failed to answer many of the legitimate questions posed by councillors. I met them in February and I was told I would receive responses to my questions that evening. It took a full month before I got a response back. Uisce Éireann is a law unto itself. It is a public service body which provides no service and hides from the public. I can only imagine the harm that would be…

The Minister of State made a point about school places in Cork and Kerry. We have schools that are looking to put in ASD classes. They are crying out for ASD classes. Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig is looking to put them in, but it cannot. It has no room. It is waiting on a rebuild. It looks like Scoil Barra in Ballincollig will be offered prefabs. It has land it wants to build on to put in ASD classes. We have the Padre Pio school in Churchfield, one of the best schools for integration between mainstream and ASD class…

The Minister spoke about school completions, the number of people working on them and the work that is being done. My eldest daughter will be 19 in less than two weeks. She attended Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers when she was five. I was on the board of management. A new school is going to be built, probably in two or three years. It has been sanctioned and is going through design. Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers has been looking for a school building for 40 years, since 1985. It is unbelievable how slow this country is to deliver …

Can we have a few seconds?

If he did, I did not hear it. There are 97 children in Cork with no place for September-----

Carrignavar is only over the road. Irish Water has not been able to get a drop of water out there since-----

That is not me saying it; that is the EPA saying it. There is no way that school is going to be open.

The Minister of State is coming in here telling people a school will be open but it will not be.

There are ten houses built in Carrignavar that cannot be connected to the water-----