Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education

Mr. Hubert Loftus:

There are two points. The emergency works scheme is the mechanism for dealing with urgently required works that are of an emergency nature, and that is open all year round. That is done through an online application system that is user-friendly and easy to access. The summer works scheme is a multi-annual scheme and works through a range of categories. The application process for that opens every few years and we will work through the categories and do that. One of the things we are conscious of regarding the summer works scheme is effectively about greening it to have a climate focus to help transition and improve our capacity for delivering on 2030 emissions targets and, ultimately, 2050 as part of our overall trajectory in that regard.

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