Carlow schools affected by Sammon Construction collapse finished by December

Carlow schools affected by the collapse of Sammon Construction will now be completed in December. 

New contractors are now on three sites, and the schools – Loreto College, in Wexford, and Coláiste Raithín and St Philomena’s Primary School, in Bray, Co Wicklow – are on track to be completed by August and open in September.

Three further buildings are scheduled to be finished by December – Eureka Secondary School, Kells, Meath, Tyndall College in Carlow, and Carlow College of Further Education.

Appearing before the Oireachtas Finance Committee on July 26, David Corrigan – Head of Project Management at the National Development Finance Agency - confirmed that the replacement contractor, Woodvale, will undertake a survey and preliminary works during the summer in Carlow. 

He said this will provide a detailed scope of works to enable the contract arrangements to be finalised for the completion of these schools by the end of December.

Works came to a halt last January and a number of Carlow sub-contractors have been left out of pocket after the company went into liquidation – when the UK-based Carillion Construction went bust.

Irish company, Sammon, had been subcontracted by Carillion to carry out the building work on its behalf. But Sammon went into liquidation in June. 

Sub-contractors who had been working on the sites are still owed substantial amounts of money.