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New Secondary Schools get green light

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  • 18-03-2009 11:10pm
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    El Che
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    I see this week that the building of two new Secondary School's in Portlaoise have gotten approval and funding by means of a Public Private Partnership.

    While I welcome it, I wonder about three things:

    • What is the total cost of the Public Private Partnership? We've all saw the disasterious West-Link toll bridge on the M50 which was a PPP and cost endless amounts as well as causing chaos for drivers.
    • What about the Primary School saga in Portlaoise where children can't get places? They turned down a 15 million euro offer from the Parish Priest and now they approve Secondary Schools instead when the Tech only moved to the new Portlaoise College a few years ago!
    Its good for forward planning (finally) but what the hell are the people in the Government smoking when the Primary School's are more badly needed? :eek:


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    Sonic_exyouth
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    El Che wrote: »
    I see this week that the building of two new Secondary School's in Portlaoise have gotten approval and funding by means of a Public Private Partnership.

    While I welcome it, I wonder about three things:

    • What is the total cost of the Public Private Partnership? We've all saw the disasterious West-Link toll bridge on the M50 which was a PPP and cost endless amounts as well as causing chaos for drivers.
    • What about the Primary School saga in Portlaoise where children can't get places? They turned down a 15 million euro offer from the Parish Priest and now they approve Secondary Schools instead when the Tech only moved to the new Portlaoise College a few years ago!
    Its good for forward planning (finally) but what the hell are the people in the Government smoking when the Primary School's are more badly needed? :eek:

    Whats goin on with the old tech building.. it looks horribly run-down and is a bit of an eye-sore.


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