Prioritisation of upgrades to existing schools needed, Fianna Fáil leader says
have backed the principal’s threat not to reopen after Easter without a firm commitment on a long-awaited new building.CBS primary school on Friday were supportive of the strategy adopted by Michael O’Sullivan to get the Department of Education to deliver on a long-standing commitment for a new building and upgrade of the existing school.
“I think if the school is unsafe, I really don’t want to be sending my children somewhere unsafe,” she said. “My two boys have been in the prefabs this year and they’ve already been out more this year than in previous years with health issues. Tim O’Sullivan, who was waiting to collect his grandson Dylan, said he was in no doubt that Charleville was suffering because it is a country town. “When I heard about this, I thought – if this was Dublin 4, it wouldn’t happen, it would have been resolved years ago, it would never have even reached this point.”
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