Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am subject to correction but we have engaged other agencies like the VECs, the OPW and the National Development Finance Agency to implement our building programme. We identified the schools, where they are located and what their capacities are. As a result of the sheer scale of the problem the feeling in the Department was that we did not have the resources to do all of this ourselves. We devolved responsibility for the delivery of the project to a number of different agencies.