More than €1m spent renting one school’s prefabs

MORE than €1 million has been spent on renting prefabs for a growing Meath school where more than half the pupils are taught in temporary classrooms.

Ratoath Junior National School has about 600 pupils but has been waiting a number of years for the go-ahead to build an extension to accommodate its rapidly rising pupil numbers.

But, although school authorities have just been assured by the Department of Education that work should be ready to commence later this year, figures obtained by Fine Gael show the cost of delays in the project.