Pelletstown school planning
The Taoiseach argued the State must plan school places years ahead and cited past failures that led to emergency prefab schools. Deputy Thomas Byrne and others interjected about local school shortages, including Pelletstown, before the Chair cut off further debate.
The Taoiseach should look at Pelletstown in his constituency where children have to be bussed to other areas.
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I remember very well when I was in opposition that we had to set up an emergency school in prefabricated buildings one September - Scoil Choilm - precisely because the then Government did not plan three or four years ahead.
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Remember the emergency school on the racecourse. There was no planning back then.
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The Taoiseach is completely out of touch.
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-----we are planning three or four years ahead for children who are born and are aged two.
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The same rules apply to the Taoiseach. If he and the leader of Fianna Fáil want a longer debate, they will have to find another way to do so.
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There is trouble in paradise; the Government parties have fallen out.