VEC spent €52,000 on windows for empty school [tribune.ie]
- Published: 21 November 2010
AN EDUCATION body was accused of wasting money after it spent €52,000 replacing windows in an empty building.
The money was spent fitting new windows in a vacant wing of a Portlaoise building owned by Laois VEC, which is not scheduled for use until at least July 2012.
Local activists said the money would have been better spent on education at a time when budgets are about to be slashed by the government.
Former councillor Michael Moloney said: "In the budget that is only weeks away, it is estimated the cut in education will be in the order of €400m.
"Yet in the very week that this information is laid before the public, we have a VEC installing new windows in an empty building
"This is happening while children around the country are being denied special needs hours within the same education system."
Anne O'Keeffe of Laois VEC said: "The building is the former vocational school in the centre of town, which houses a new Educate Together primary school.
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