I welcome guests of Senator Conor Murphy who are past pupils of the Loreto group. You are very welcome. Enjoy your visit here to Leinster House today.

I also acknowledge and welcome Mr. Jan Taylor, up from Carlow on the visit. He is very welcome.

CBS Westland Row is a great school. It is only a five-minute walk from here. Willie Pearse and Pádraig Pearse were students in the school. It has been there since 1864. It is understandable that it will have a lot of maintenance requirements. As it is a very old building, it does require a lot of maintenance. Half of the boys' toilets in the school are closed because of flooding due to the rain. There is a downpipe that is not working and it is causing the destruction of the toilets for the boys. It is also affecting the classrooms. A knock-on effect is that it is affecting the morale of teachers. These teachers are working with some of the most disadvantaged and diverse communities in the country. The downpipe is the source of the problems and it needs to be urgently fixed. The money is there because they were recently granted €700,000 to do other maintenance works. They are only going to spend about €400,000 of that so the money is there to do up the downpipe. They got quotes. They have engaged with the Department of Education and Youth. It is really urgent that these toilets are fixed. The money is there and it needs to be reassigned to fix the downpipe and fix the toilets. We need to see some common sense. I am sure there is somebody in the Department ticking boxes there and saying "No" but we need to see common sense. We need to see the Minister for Education and Youth intervene and say that this makes sense. It will maintain the school morale and the health and safety of the children in that school. Can we ask the Minister in to debate schools in general and their maintenance?