Richard Bruton: I can’t solve school planning delays

Planning and other delays to major school building projects are beyond Education Minister Richard Bruton’s control, he told the Dáil.

He was responding to criticisms by Fianna Fáil TD Thomas Byrne who described a December 2014 announcement of projects that were to begin building in 2015 as a “fantasy list”.

The opposition education spokesperson said work had yet to start on 26 of the 70 large-scale projects, and questioned whether Mr Bruton’s department had the money to meet its commitments.