Calls to approve capital projects[IrishTimes.com]
- Published: 08 October 2009
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) has called on Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe to give the go ahead to essential capital projects in the school building programme after it emerged that the Department has yet to spend €396 million of its budget.
New figures showed just €455 million out of an €841 million capital allocation has been spent this year to modernise schools and provide new buildings.
Defending the figures, the Department of Education said the shortfall was due to savings in the cost of projects, and said many bills had yet to come in.
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