Fianna Fail has called for funding to put a temporary portakabin in place at a primary school is Wicklow to be made available "immediately".

Plans for primary school students to be educated in a bar due to the shortage of space at Greystones Community School have been slammed and many parents are strongly opposed on religious grounds.

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TD for Wicklow Stephen Wicklow called for an urgent intervention from Education Minister Richard Bruton

He said: "It is completely unacceptable that young children would have their classroom located in a bar. The need for the portakabins has been known about for a year, and serious questions need to be asked regarding the planning for this being left so late. Wicklow County Council are doing everything they can to help, but I cannot understand why the KWETB didn’t have this issue sorted out months ago.

"A relatively small amount of funding is required to put a temporary portakabin in place, and I have asked the Minister to make that funding available immediately."

(CD/MH)