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If it weren’t for the fact that we are in the middle of an international crisis of global proportions in the uncharted waters of unpredictability (ed - that is enough hyperbole), the government would be getting covered in other forms of excrement. Not least due to the admission that:
”high proportion of existing schools are in poor condition”.
And it puts the situation down to the vast majority of the country’s 4,000 primary and second level schools having seen “no capital investment whatsoever up to the late 1990s”.
Admitting to decades of underinvestment while the current investments are on hold pending a spending review and government has repeatedly flagged the easy option of cutting spending in this area to balance the books seems like a decent call.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the Examiner have an absolute horror story on the front page. A leaked email from a surgeon to a manager at CUH (Cork University Hospital). For a flavour of the meltdown:
highlights how on just one shift, one critically ill woman was left without morphine on an A&E trolley after undergoing an emergency breast removal.
Thankfully its summer time, Dail goes on a break soon and we get to speculate about the merits of a second referendum - premature or not.
It is amazing to me on practical level not so much that so many of the national schools built around the turn of the century are still in use but that so many are serviceable. Look at the buildings we put up in the last 30 years do you think they will still be usable in 60/70 years time?
Look at the buildings we put up in the last 30 years
you mean the prefabs?
Cheeky!
not entirely in jest either to be frank. A prefab rollout scheme doesnt really constitute capital investment.
I’m put in mind of that quote from the West Wing where they say (Sam I think it is ) that schools should be like cathedrals and here we are settling for Mass rocks.