I raise concerns about the accountability and oversight of the school building programme, specifically with regard to one project management company contracted by the Department of education. KSNPM has been paid over €27 million by the State over the past six years. I am dealing with three schools that KSNPM is supposed to be looking after. In one school, it left behind a botched, half-done job. In another school, it left without ensuring the works were complete. In the third school, it left a school building site half done and empty since last June. Some examples include: unsafe exposure of electrical systems, water ingress from leaking roofs onto a brand new bathroom and broken asbestos tiles and classroom floors that children are walking around every day. In one instance, it argued for weeks with a school principal who was seeking to ensure there would be running water from a tap in a toilet for a new AS classroom. The attitude from KSNPM towards these schools has been despicable and the response from the Department has been disgracefully slow. What will the Taoiseach do to ensure accountability for the school management building programme in the Department?

Frankly, the Department has responsibility to ensure the fulfilment-----

I have raised this with the Department.

-----of its contracts. I cannot get involved in every single contract in the country, nor would the Deputy expect me to, but I will talk to the Minister for education, Deputy Naughton, in this regard. If there is contractual non-fulfilment - what the Deputy is saying clearly points in that direction – then the Department should rigorously pursue the company. It should also ensure the basics in the schools are put right pending any engagement with the company, be it legal or whatever, to ensure the contract is fulfilled and that children are protected and looked after in those schools with the provision of basic infrastructure, facilities and so forth.