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It is “incomprehensible” that “prefab buildings are being considered” as a response to the housing crisis, and “illustrative of the utter failure of Government to take the problem seriously”.

St Paul’s Secondary School in Oughterard, which had been forced to remove some of its students and staff from decade-old prefabs after its roof started caving in, has welcomed the news that funding to construct permanent classrooms has been approved.

Deputy Willie Penrose has welcomed the news that The Downs National School, Mullingar and Clonbonny National School, Athlone are being offered the opportunity to erect permanent buildings in place of the prefabricated structures currently in place to accommodate pupils.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Dep Michelle Mulherin, has welcomed the news that a number of Mayo schools have been given notice to proceed by the Department of Education and Skills to replace prefabs with permanent accommodation, including Behymore NS, Ballina; Scoil Cholmcille, Breaffy, Ballina; Cooneal NS, Ballina; SN Naomh Padraig, Currabaggan, Ballina; Richmond NS, Crossmolina; Ballyvary Central NS, Castlebar; SN Chomain Naofa, Roundfort; and Lankill NS, Liscarney.

Mayo Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn that 10 primary schools in Mayo, currently renting prefabs, will be offered grants to build permanent accommodation this year.

Senator Camillus Glynn has warmly welcomed the approval of two new classrooms for Curraghmore National School in Mullingar.

Gaelscoil Uileog de Búrca in Claremorris have been denied funding by the Department of Education to replace prefabs because the Department has considered the school has sufficient accommodation.

A total of almost €1.5 million has been paid out by Westmeath primary schools for the rent of prefabs over the last 10 years, according to figures released by the Department of Education last week. In Mullingar alone, prefabricated structures have cost schools some €608,000 in rent, as several schools await approval on urgently needed extensions.

Sinn Fein county councillor Gerry Murray has described as extraordinary the admission by the Government that it does not know how many schools across the State are using prefabs. Last week the Department of Education confirmed that it does not have a complete list of all primary and secondary schools using prefab buildings; it just has data collected from a sample survey of 900 schools. Shockingly there are more than 2,605 prefab units being used in the 900 schools surveyed.

The State's over-reliance on prefabricated classrooms was raised at this month's meeting of Westmeath Vocational Education Committee (WVEC), held this week in Castlepollard Community College.