A Dublin Gaelscoil will have to close again due to ongoing repair works to fix fire safety problems in Tallaght.

The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has hit back at claims he has no plan to deal with “outrageous” levels of patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

It has emerged that other schools, including in Portarlington in Co Laois and in Ratoath in Co Meath, face late delays in opening up for the new school year, joining Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin in Clonakilty in Co Cork, which has had to delay its re-opening for three days next week.

That cliche about doing the same thing time after time but expecting a different outcome may not have the impact it once did.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been accused of being "all talk and no action" when it comes to tackling firms at the centre of building scandals after a company being sued by the State won a new contract to build a multi-million euro hospital unit.

Remediation work required on 39 schools, for which the Department of Education is suing the builder, suggests regulation is not what it should be, writes Michael Clifford.

42 schools built by Western Building Systems were found to have structural defects.

Health Minister Simon Harris does not have the power to stop the firm at the centre of the school building controversy from building a new hospital unit.

Education Minister Joe McHugh has been urged to "come clean" over the scale of the Celtic Tiger schools safety crisis after it was confirmed that more than a dozen facilities still need more fire protection and structural repairs.

Western Building Systems said it is committed to working with the Department of Education to resolve structural issues at a number of schools it built.

Education Minister Joe McHugh has insisted all schools caught up in year-long fire safety and structural concerns will re-open this August - despite admitting work is still taking place on more than a dozen facilities.

Temporary safety measures will need to be put in place at 17 school buildings, after structural flaws were identified.

The Government has admitted almost half of the schools found last year to have serious fire and structural safety problems will still not have the faults repaired by the start of the new school year.

The Department of Education has admitted it was forced to breach EU procurement rules over appointing a contractor to carry out remediation works to 22 schools found to have structural flaws last year.

The Department of Education paid €1.5m this year to a construction company with which it remains in legal dispute over alleged safety risks at a series of schools.

Permanent remediation works on 22 schools will begin over the summer, with representatives from the schools affected asked to attend the Department of Education offices in Tullamore and Dublin next month for an ‘information session’ on the planned remediation programme.

Education Minister Joe McHugh has warned that building failures of the kind that caused the closure of a number of schools around the country and remedial works at others may warrant criminal investigation.

Five more schools built by Western Building Systems require remedial work, bringing the total number of schools with structural issues to 23, the Department of Education has confirmed.

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The number of schools that require protective works prior to reopening after the midterm break has risen to 17, while question marks remain over a further 13.

Plans to tell all parents affected by the schools safety crisis if the facility their child has serious fire and structural flaws have been delayed a "day or two" amid ongoing concerns over the true scale of the scandal.

Thousands of parents affected by the deepening schools safety scandal could sue the State for “considerable damages” as a direct result of the decade-long failure to uncover the potentially life-threatening crisis.

Our school buildings crisis shows what happens when government is unwilling to tackle an issue until it becomes too big, or too dangerous, to ignore, writes Michael Clifford

Two Dublin schools have shut with immediate effect after problems were discovered during structural checks being carried out at 30 schools built by Western Building Systems.

The company that built dozens of schools now under investigation due to fire safety concerns is currently building six more schools for the Department of Education and was given the contracts after the fears emerged.

The company that built dozens of schools now under investigation due to fire safety concerns is currently building six more schools for the Department of Education and was given the contracts after the fears emerged.

The Government has launched a second investigation into serious fire safety concerns in Celtic Tiger-era schools amid growing fears that the scale of the crisis has been deliberately “suppressed”.

The case for a widespread audit of Celtic Tiger-era buildings has never been as strong, writes Michael Clifford.

Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

The Government is receiving legal advice on what action to take over revelations six Celtic Tiger-era schools have been found to have serious fire safety fears.

Firefighters have called for an urgent review of all public and residential buildings built over the past decade in direct response to serious fire safety fears in Celtic Tiger-era schools.

The Department of Education has launched an immediate review of Celtic Tiger-era schools’ fire safety standards amid fears over the protections they would offer during a blaze.

The builders behind a 200-child primary school, found six years after it opened to have serious fire safety problems which could have seen it collapse during a blaze within 20 minutes, is still tendering and winning Government contracts.

More than 200 primary students were attending a school for six years before it was discovered it was a serious fire hazard, the Irish Examiner has learned.