Construction Firm Can't Deliver New Midlands School Due To Rising Material Costs

Structural steel prices are up by around 40%.

A construction firm says it can't deliver a new school in Co Westmeath for the original price agreed because of rising material costs.

Kilbeggan Secondary School is understood to be one of more than a dozen planned new schools hit by the same problem.

Structural steel prices are up by around 40% according to the main lobby group for the Irish construction industry.

Fianna Fáil Senator Paul Daly, chairman of the Kilbeggan school board, says it's thrown their plans into disarray:

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