On many issues this Government talks a good game but is not so good at delivering. Delivering new schools and the actual buildings for those schools is one spectacular failure in that regard. Under the online patronage process system, the Department of Education is due to deliver 47 schools between 2019 and 2022. I would like to know how many of them have actual sites and buildings. Certainly, in my area sites and actual buildings for the schools that have been decided-----

This is more suited to a parliamentary question, Deputy.

No. It relates to a promise that the Government would deliver these schools.

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Dún Laoghaire Educate Together National School has a site but no building. The proposed Sallynoggin-Killiney Educate Together national school has no site and no building. Gaelscoil Laighean is still waiting on a permanent site. The Red Door School, a special school, has been operating in prefabs for over a decade. Gaelscoil Phádraig has spent 20 years in prefabs waiting for a site. Blackrock Educate Together Secondary School has a site but no building and is in temporary accommodation. That is just in my area.

From my experience as a former Minister for Education and Science, getting a site is the most important step in terms of getting buildings. Many schools do not want to wait for that, as the Deputy will know, and they seek recognition from the Department and want to get ahead. Hence, they might move into temporary accommodation. Then there can be planning issues, objections and all sorts of issues. I have been there. We are all public representatives in this House.

Gaelscoil Phádraig has been waiting 20 years.

Everybody knows that what I am saying is what happens. The most important step is to get the site. At least when there is possession of the site, either the patron or the Government, through the Department, ETBs or patrons, can then start design and build and so on. There are wider issues, however, as to how we can start the whole process.

It is called advance planning.