I wish to raise the issue of the schools building projects announced last week. The Minister, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, announced 105 projects that will be proceeding to the tender or building process imminently. We were very disappointed not to see the projects promised for Rush. These involve two school buildings on the Park Road campus: St. Joseph's Secondary School and Gaelscoil Ros Eo. These are two schools that have been waiting a long time for new buildings. We worked together for many years to acquire the land, which was a tedious process, and widen the road to the land. The project is now shovel-ready but it was not on the list released last week by the Minister, Deputy Naughton. The fury of the people of Rush over the past week has been considerable. I do not blame them.

St. Joseph's Secondary School has 950 students and is bursting at the seams. It is a DEIS school and it does excellent work. It has a massive waiting list and cannot cope with the number of students who want to attend. It has fantastic outcomes, fantastic leadership and fantastic education but it is being let down by the failure to provide a decent school building. The school has students who want to access special education classrooms but are unable to do so. If the new school project were given the go-ahead, it could be proceeded with immediately. That this is not possible is very disappointing.

Gaelscoil Ros Eo has served the community for many years from prefabs located in a car park belonging to the GAA. There are children who have gone through it and moved on to secondary education having spent their entire primary education in a couple of prefabs.

They received an excellent education but they were not given the dignity of a decent school building.

The town of Rush has a population of more than 12,000 and is growing exponentially. We are absorbing the housing needs of Dublin. We are getting housing and more housing but we are not getting the facilities to keep up with the housing. It is an absolute disgrace. I would really like the Leader to call on the Minister, Deputy Naughton, to come into this Chamber and have a proper debate on education and the infrastructure for education. We need to prioritise the areas that are exploding in population with young populations and not her own constituency.