Renting school prefabs in one county costs €3m

THE rental bill to taxpayers for school prefabs in Cork will be around €3 million this year.

Although the figure is down from a bill of almost €4m for city and county schools in 2009, the Labour Party’s Sean Sherlock said the Department of Education could use its money better to provide permanent classroom buildings.

The average cost of €12,711 for each of 236 units in primary and second level schools is more than €1,000 less than last year, when 282 prefab units were being used on the grounds of 110 Cork schools.