Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion

3:30 pm

Mr. Hubert Loftus:

I will explain for the Deputy. Some 340 projects on the school building programme were announced as part of the school building programme back in November 2015. In tandem with that, the new schools to be delivered for September 2017 and September 2018 were announced. At this time it is totally natural for planning to announce the new schools required and to be delivered for September 2019 to September 2022, inclusive. The new experience here, as part of the learning experience we have brought to this process, is that rather than announcing new school requirements just two years in advance, we are now announcing them four years in advance. It is through the GIS system that we are able to do this and we achieve a better lead-in period for planning and delivery of those new school projects.

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