Parents fury at lack of planning for schools

PRIMARY school parents have criticised the Government for a lack of long-term planning on run-down and dilapidated school buildings.

The National Parents Council (Primary) welcomed the transparency in Education Minister Noel Dempsey’s announcement this week of the

€343 million school building programme for the year. It allows for work on 149 large-scale projects and capital funding for 433 schools, all at primary and second level.