No move on school building works

MORE than a third of schools promised by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe that their major building projects would begin tendering or construction this year have not moved to that stage – with less than a month left to meet the deadline.

The minister announced in February 43 schools whose new buildings or extensions would go to tender or construction, including two that he had added to the list proposed by his department’s building unit.

But only 11 of them have so far either been completed or are under construction, with a further 16 at tender stage in the school building programme’s long process.