‘Our children are left in limbo’: Newly built Greystones school lying idle for a year

have been unable to access their new building due to a dispute between the Department of Education and building firm Western Building Systems over fire safety issues.

“They’re left in limbo. Our teachers are great, but the situation is far from ideal. There’s no PE hall, library, resource room. Some toilets are used as storage rooms. They can’t risk having IT equipment, as they can be easily broken into. There’s no facility for after-school activities.” However, WBS chief executive Martin McCloskey insisted there was “never any basis” for delaying the handover of the school which had been certified as suitable for use by the department’s own experts last July.“The reality is that the department’s concerns were challenged. In fact, further independent fire safety tests, undertaken by UK fire testing experts BRE, showed the buildings performed to almost double the required standard.

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