Schools:  Capital Projects

Part of Ministerial Statements – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 12:00 pm on 24 June 2014.

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Photo of John O'Dowd John O'Dowd Sinn Féin 12:00, 24 June 2014

I appear to have been aware of it longer than you have been, because I am the one who had to remind you that it was in a dire state.  I am glad that the message has finally got through.

Lurgan is a classic example of why we require area planning to work and the needs of the entire school area to be taken into account rather than those of one or two schools in an area.  To date, the debate among many in the Lurgan area has been about the needs of one or two schools rather than those of all the schools in the controlled sector.  I hope that we get to the stage at which we have a debate, a discussion and a decision about the needs of the entire controlled sector in Lurgan.  Then, I assure you, I will commit to following that up with capital investment.