asked the Minister for Education what the present position is regarding the building of a vocational school at Templeogue, County Dublin.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Templeogue (Dublin) Vocational School.
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There are no proposals before my Department for the erection of a vocational school at Templeogue, County Dublin.
I know the Minister knows full well that I am referring to the school in Tallaght.
To be candid, Deputy, I did not.
It is a peculiar thing that the Minister's officials cleared this with the Vocational Education Committee in Dublin. They asked if I was referring to Tallaght and I said, yes, I was referring to Tallaght. It is not easy to know the exact address of this complex. The Minister is only evading answering the question until next week.
I am only too anxious to give information whenever a Deputy puts down a question. In this case I did not know to what the Deputy was referring.
I am Chairman of the Vocational Education Committee in Dublin and I know that inspectors from the Minister's Department asked the vocational people if I was talking about the Tallaght complex. I said I was and that was related back yet the Minister comes into the House and says he does not know.
Is it not rather strange for the Deputy to come in here and argue about whether he is talking about Tallaght or Templeogue? Would it not have been much simpler to put down a question asking me what the present position was regarding the building of a vocational school in Tallaght?
The Minister is deliberately evading answering the question.