The Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton will be reaching out to each of the Donegal Primary Schools that are affected by defective concrete.<\/p>\n
Her Government colleague, Donegal Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, confirmed that engagement between the Department and schools will begin over the next week.<\/p>\n
A total of sixteen Primary Schools in Donegal have been affected by defective concrete.<\/p>\n
Deputy Gallagher says that amongst the next steps in the Department for Education;s outreach will be an initital on-site visit to each of the schools.<\/p>\n
“Officials in the Minister\u2019s department have been developing a DCB strategy throughout 2026. This strategy will take a programme\u2011based approach, establishing a clear pathway for the Donegal schools currently awaiting remediation,” Deputy Gallagher said.<\/p>\n
“As the next phase progresses, the department will work closely with Donegal ETB, which will act as a local delivery partner. This structured, programmatic model is considered essential given the specialist expertise required and will ensure that feedback and learning from all affected schools are captured and applied effectively,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton will be reaching out to each of the Donegal Primary Schools that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-488518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}