Lisneal College: ‘Mistake made’ over school football pitch use
Richard Pengelly responded that the school relied on the pitch as its main play and recreation space for pupils.
“The point is if it was being used, it wasn’t an inescapable health and safety pressure, do you not accept that?” Sheehan responded.
Mr Pengelly replied, “I don’t.”
He said that if a school needed a replacement roof, for instance, the EA did not close the school but it was still an “inescapable pressure.”
“I don’t accept that point,” Sheehan replied.
“There was educational funding used to bring the pitch to a standard that wasn’t required,” he said.
“So that money could have been used elsewhere for some more pressing or urgent need.”
“But it wasn’t, it was decided that it would go in to bring this pitch up to a certain standard.”
“The pitch is required by the school, the pitch is part of the school estate,” Mr Pengelly replied.
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