Pupils from a Co Kildare primary school will travel to Leinster House today to protest a seven-year delay in the completion of their new school building.
Fifth and sixth class pupils at Mercy Convent Primary School, Naas, will deliver letters to Minister for Education Norma Foley asking her to intervene so that the building, which began construction in 2017, can be finished and opened.
But the contract with the first builder was terminated mid-construction after difficulties arose and the building stood as a shell for three years until March 2021.By the time work began in March 2021 to seal the school, those windows were weather damaged and had to be scrapped and replaced with new ones.
Those sixth class pupils were in Junior Infants when construction on the new school building first began in 2017. This part of Kildare has seen significant population growth as young families moved into new estates in the area. "This is a very significant rollout of the school building programme that is being delivered in a challenging construction sector environment," the Department said in a statement.
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