Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A school principal is the CEO of a very large organisation. Even on a school building project, for example, the amount of capacity hours a school principal puts into managing emergency works for the summer is huge. Sometimes it is very lonely at the top. The more schemes we throw at schools, while it is support of a kind, they need to be administered and managed. On costs, for example, we could be more proactive.

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