Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:50 pm on 19 October 2016.
Certainly, I agree with Vikki Howells in her commendation of RCT council, and indeed councils across Wales for the way in which they have embraced the twenty-first century schools programme. Over 150 schools and colleges across Wales are seeing rebuilding and refurbishment of their premises. But the point that my colleague made in her supplementary towards the end is perhaps the more important. Schools are more than buildings: it’s the message that they send to young people about the value we place on them and the opportunities that proper premises of this sort will go on providing into the future.