Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We are working very closely with the Department and the local authorities as planning proposals for new areas go in, where they are setting aside areas for schools, so that we will not be caught out in the way we were in the past. It is not so much that prefabs to extend schools is the issue, rather making sure that when there is a new area for development, there are sites for schools, perhaps one or two primary schools and a site for a post-primary school. That is what we are seeking to achieve and we have much better framework in place in partnership with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to achieve that
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