Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

11:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

Grangegorman is more than just a PPP project, obviously. It is a number of different phases over the project as a whole. DIT aims that the first group of 1,000 students will be on site by 1 September 2014 in time for the 2014-15 academic year. The first phase of PPPs proper will be completed in 2017 - that is their aim with 9,500 students moving into 50,000 sq. m of new facilities in science, technology and engineering, and creative arts and digital media. The infrastructural works towards the PPPs will commence this year. We hope it will be in April, but to be precise about a month is difficult. We estimate about €80 million for enabling works, including VAT payments. In parallel, the adaption of the existing facilities - the college of art, design, photography and social science - is under way and is aimed for completion by 1 September. There is also an Educate Together primary school planned for the site, and the Grangegorman Development Agency will lead on that as well.

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