Calls for a national audit to ensure school fire safety

Teachers have called for a national audit of all schools to ensure they are fire safe and meet all health and safety standards.

A motion was passed at the final day of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) conference in Killarney, Co Kerry, calling for the audit and comes after revelations in the Irish Examiner last October that more than 200 primary students in Dublin were attending a school for six years before it was discovered it was a serious fire hazard.

The north Dublin school was signed off in 2008, but a routine inspection in 2014 found it had so many fire safety concerns it could have collapsed during a blaze in 20 minutes.