From the start of this myself and others have been forcefully told, 'nothing to see here'.

Slurs thrown around, people branded 'sectarian'.

There is definitely something to see here.

This letter is said to have come after a June meeting at Parliament Buildings between Ministers Givan and Lyons, Foyle MLA Gary Middleton & the school principal.

Another twist in this story that sparks a whole new set of serious questions.

MLAs have once again questioned the prioritisation methods used by the department/EA.

If schools with serious concerns over roofs, black mould and heating are placed behind a pitch upgrade to Northern Ireland Football League standard - then something is rotten in the system.

Minutes show they discussed the pitch and broken floodlights, previously installed by EA.

Action to be taken was:

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Another MLA pointed to the “bluster and belligerence” of Mr Givan when he came before the Assembly on Monday where he and party colleagues branded everyone-and-their-dog “sectarian” for having the audacity to question whether due process was adhered to in this funding allocation.

She went on to outline anger expressed by four principals who spoke of the need for urgent repairs to roofs and heating systems.

Altnagelvin's ED is the oldest in NI.

When built it was designed to cater for 40,000 patients annually, the numbers are almost doubled that now.

But it appears that improvements are years away and will be subject to a budget being available.

Get this shared people 🙂

They had all the time in the world to get a short statement together, they must've all sat down and discussed it.

And still they put a line in saying a pitch was not being used that everyone knows has been used steady.

What else are they hiding?

The DUP has been slinging mud all day and questioning others.

The Education Dept changed its website since this morning as it showed major works are those in excess of £500k - now no figure.

EA has retracted a blatant falsehood about the pitch being out of action for 6 years.

All Stormont parties ought to be ashamed at the complete lack of delivery for Derry and the wider NW.

It should be a stain on all of their records but some will wear it as a badge of honour.

Never mind equality, Stormont isn't delivering the bare minimum for Derry city!

That should not be acceptable to any Derry person.

Don't let me hear any Derry person mention Casement.

That is a luxury project for Belfast.

Derry can't even get the basics for health, education and the economy.

Funding has to come from the likes of EU peace funding, the Irish Government or a once in a lifetime bespoke City Deal.

To summarize, it appears that taxpaying citizens in Derry are in fact second class citizens as far as Stormont is concerned.

You'll struggle to think of major multi-million-pound capital projects that Stormont has funded here.

ARTS:

Belfast gets around 80% of that fund too.

Meaning Derry as the second city is left lagging behind and unable to host any big events on an annual basis, except for the Halloween festival.

CIVIL SERVICE:

12,093 NICS jobs in Belfast.
82% of all civil service jobs in the east.
1,477 NICS jobs in Derry city.

When decentralising, instead of moving them to Derry city, jobs were moved to a village in Ballykelly which will have little economic impact there.

INVEST NI/ECONOMY:

Without a university it is difficult to attract business.

But even so small towns across NI are consistently getting more from Invest NI.

Nine constituency areas got more financial assistance and total investment than Derry city in the past five years.

Expansion at Magee has barely moved forward in the past 10-20 years and now requires £700m to reach the modest figure of 10k students.

Derry remains the only city of its size on these islands without a sizeable university (at least 20k students).

FURTHER EDUCATION:

Small towns got much more for further education colleges than Derry has for its uni from Stormont.

For Eg DUP Ministers gave Coleraine and Ballymena £120m for new colleges and the same dept gave Derry just £18m over 10 years in capital funding for Magee.