Department cannot spend money on schools [finegael.org]
- Published: 15 August 2010
Fine Gael Deputy for Dublin South West, Brian Hayes TD, has today (Sunday) revealed that in the first 6 months of this year less than a quarter of the capital allocation for school buildings has been spent by the Department of Education.
“The Minister for Education has confirmed in a Parliamentary Question (See Below) to me that as of the 8th July last, €135 million out of a total of €578 million on school buildings has been spent.
“It’s bad enough that the Government is now reneging on the National Development Plan, but the example of school buildings show that they cannot even spend the money they are given because of gross incompetence. If this trend of expenditure between now and December continues, the Department of Education will have to hand the unspent funds for school buildings back to the Department of Finance. This happened last year and is likely to happen again this year. Something is badly wrong when the Department cannot spend the money they are given to construct new schools and classrooms.
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