Pupils at 99 schools move out of prefabs

Children at almost 100 schools have moved from hundreds of prefabs into permanent classrooms in the last six months and over 85 more projects are expected to benefit thousands of pupils next year.

As announced last June, the Department of Education has allocated €15m to allow 46 primary and second-level schools build new classrooms in place of mostly rented prefabs in the current school year.

Most of the funding will be spent in 2014, resulting in moves for around 2,600 pupils, but 99 projects from a previous replacement initiative have been completed since June.