Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 12 - Contract Management in Education PPP Projects
Financial Accounts 2012
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We are very conscious generally of the workload put on schools in managing building programmes and have made several changes in this regard in recent years. For instance, we have introduced a range of measures to diversify delivery arrangements for school building programmes. This has involved working with the education and training boards, the Office of Public Works and the National Development Finance Agency, not just on PPPs but also on traditional builds. We have even worked on a couple of occasions with local authorities. It is all about increased diversification in terms of the bodies that can take responsibility for these projects and thereby remove the onus from the schools to ensure delivery.
Taking the Deputy's example as a case in a point-----