High Court proceedings against subcontractors involved in pickets that were placed on school construction sites have been adjourned.
The adjournment came after lawyers representing some of the subcontractors, who say they have not been paid for works carried out on the schools, gave undertakings to comply with injunctions preventing them from blocking access to the sites, trespassing at or removing any items from the schools.
Earlier this week, the joint venture charged with constructing five schools and a college of Further Education, Inspiredspaces, secured a temporary High Court injunction against the subcontractors.
The subcontractors have been protesting in an attempt to get paid for work carried out at the schools and for equipment installed.
The contractors have been left unpaid after 50% shareholder in Inspiredspaces, UK company Carillion, and then Irish company Sammon, both collapsed.
Inspiredspaces claimed before the High Court it required the injunctions because workers were being denied access to sites in Bray and Wexford after the subcontractors commenced their protest last Monday.
Those sites were at an advanced state of construction and any further delays would result in the school not being ready to open in time for the new school year in late August, it was claimed.
Counsel for Inspiredspaces told Ms Justice Caroline Costello that undertakings to comply with the terms of the injunctions had been offered by most of the defendants.
Counsel said workers were now back on the sites in Bray and Wexford.
The Judge expressed her sympathy for "very, very difficult" position "all of the parties" found themselves in.
She said while there was considerable sympathy for the plight of the subcontractors, "moral and legal obligations" may not always coincide with each other. But she went on to say that the court did "note the grievances of the subcontractors in this matter".
