The Minister of State made a point about school places in Cork and Kerry. We have schools that are looking to put in ASD classes. They are crying out for ASD classes. Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig is looking to put them in, but it cannot. It has no room. It is waiting on a rebuild. It looks like Scoil Barra in Ballincollig will be offered prefabs. It has land it wants to build on to put in ASD classes. We have the Padre Pio school in Churchfield, one of the best schools for integration between mainstream and ASD classes. It has taught special and additional needs children in prefabs for 15 years. These are the most vulnerable children we have, yet here we are with the Minister of State listing out everything the Government is doing. I have a list in Cork of people who are looking for places for their children and they cannot get them.
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The Minister spoke about school completions, the number of people working on them and the work that is being done. My eldest daughter will be 19 in less than two weeks. She attended Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers when she was five. I was on the board of management. A new school is going to be built, probably in two or three years. It has been sanctioned and is going through design. Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers has been looking for a school building for 40 years, since 1985. It is unbelievable how slow this country is to deliver projects. The conditions in the school are very bad. It was formerly located above Na Piarsaigh GAA club. Only for them, they would not have a school at all. The school then moved to a business park and then to another school. They were like nomads. The Convent Primary School in Mallow is looking for an extension and we are told there is a study going on. The Patrician Academy in Mallow has 43 children and is on a waiting list for a secondary school. There was a new school built eight years ago. It is unbelievable.
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Can we have a few seconds?
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If he did, I did not hear it. There are 97 children in Cork with no place for September-----
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Carrignavar is only over the road. Irish Water has not been able to get a drop of water out there since-----
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That is not me saying it; that is the EPA saying it. There is no way that school is going to be open.
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The Minister of State is coming in here telling people a school will be open but it will not be.
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There are ten houses built in Carrignavar that cannot be connected to the water-----
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-----and you are talking about opening a school.
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