Mr. Hubert Loftus:

As a Department and as a planning and building unit we are always in learning mode and looking to see what works well and where improvements can be made. In the schools remediation programme the issues have been addressed in the initial 22 schools and we are doing a procurement process for remaining issues. We are doing a strategic review in light of the experience, and in light of the fact we are in a Covid environment and the extent we can work in a live school environment and how it gets managed is also an issue.

More generally, the work in the schools mediation programme, which involves a fair bit of retrofitting type work, will be particularly relevant to the deep energy retrofit programme that we will do in all schools generally. Separately, with regard to the issues that arose here, as part of the next iteration of our design and build programme strengthening procedures have been put in place.