The Department of Education has spent more than €225,000 on prefabs for a Co Cork primary school as a result of delays in building an extension, the school’s principal has said.leader Micheál Martin said there needed to be a more integrated approach to school refurbishments after meeting the principal, Michael O’Sullivan, who said €228,000 has to date been spent on temporary accommodation at his school, Charleville CBS.
“There have been delays in progressing both a six-classroom extension at a cost of €1.1 million and an upgrade of the existing building at a cost of €900,000, and in the meanwhile Mr O’Sullivan is being offered more prefabs which have now cost a total of €228,000,” said Mr Martin, a former minister for education. “It’s just not an efficient use of money.
The school had 146 pupils back in 2015 and that has risen to 175 at present and is expected to reach 200 in September.“Our numbers have gone up, and are set to go up so dramatically next year from the 2015 figure that [a] six-classroom extension isn’t going to be sufficient for us, we will need an eight-room classroom extension, so it’s being long-fingered again and we’re being offered another two prefabs,” Mr O’Sullivan said.
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