40 new schools to be built by 2017 [Independent.ie]
- Published: 27 June 2011
The Education Minister, Ruairi Quinn, has announced that 40 new schools are to be built over the next six years, at a cost of around €380m.
Twenty primary and 20 secondary schools will be built to cater for the increasing number of pupils in the schools system.
Of the 40 new schools, 17 will be in the Dublin area. A further 12 will be constructed in the greater Dublin commuter belt of Wicklow, Meath, Kildare and Louth.
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