Parents raging over state of schools

PARENTS of children at a Limerick primary school where 27 pupils had a narrow escape when part of the ceiling of a pre-fab building collapsed have criticised the Government for spending €24 million on the Department of Education headquarters.

Parents raging over state of schools

"I think it’s an absolute disgrace that the Government can justify spending that amount of money to improve their own work environment while it seems the work environment for teachers and pupils in many dilapidated schools does not to bother them,” said St Nessan’s Primary School Parents’ Association chairperson Denise King said yesterday.

Parents were outraged when part of the ceiling in the classroom collapsed in June. “We were very lucky that a child was not killed,” said a teacher at the time.

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