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:

What I said is accurate. In terms of playing pitches and things like that, the constraints of any site affect what opportunities there are to work through playing facilities generally. Regarding PE halls, overall at post-primary level, nine out of ten schools have a PE hall or access to one nearby. The issue then is looking at the residual 10% and finding a strategy and approach for working that through. Part and parcel of this is looking through to see what are the wider facilities locally, seeing whether there are opportunities for alignment in that regard and then working those opportunities through more generally as part of our modernisation and PE hall programme under the overall NDP delivery. We are conscious that the construction environment is difficult and challenging, which creates construction inflation pressures, and that we have many other priorities as well in terms of special needs. It is about working all those aspects through as best as possible.

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