Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills

9:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I think so. New schools are being established and a process is in place where a new school is established and the local population - the parents whose children are in or about to go to school - is consulted on that. We can look at having regard to that and other criteria regarding what the patronage of newly established schools will be. In primary education, while there will continue to be some, we do not expect that an extensive number of new schools will be established because the primary school population will begin to decline in 2019. The post-primary school population is-----