Bandon school accommodation
Deputy Collins raises a schools capital programme commitment and the lack of temporary accommodation for St. Brogan's in Bandon. The Taoiseach refers the matter to the Minister for Education and Skills, who says he will have to get back to the Deputy.
The programme for Government states the Government is committed to delivering a schools capital programme for extensions and refurbishments. Parents of children seeking to go to the hugely popular school, St. Brogan's of Bandon, have been on tenterhooks for the last number of months as it looks like it will not be able to take over 50 students seeking admission. Some living just across the road from the school may have to travel 25 km to another school.
Comment on this
Temporary portakabins were promised from another school but, due to the collapse of Carillion, this will not happen. Will the Taoiseach personally intervene in this crisis and ask the Department of Education and Skills to source temporary portakabins elsewhere to resolve this nightmare for parents and children in Bandon and the surrounding areas?
