Ulster Unionist Education Spokesperson Rosemary Barton MLA has welcomed the announcement that 16 local schools are to benefit from an investment of £40m.
Rosemary Barton said:
“This is very welcome news and I am sure it will come as a major relief to each of the schools that have been successful.
“Unfortunately however, there will have been many others of all sizes and across all the sectors that are in urgent need of investment but haven’t been included in this list.
“The state of many of the buildings our young people across Northern Ireland are being educated in is frankly outrageous at present.
“Some schools that have closed or merged in the last two decades on the basis of promised new-builds are still waiting and as a result young people are being taught in premises that are far too small and simply not fit for purpose. Urgent attention must now be given to those schools.”
