Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

4:30 pm

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

The projects to which the Deputy referred are a matter for the new Department with responsibility for further and higher education, research, innovation and science. The accounts are still with us and I am still the Accounting Officer but all the relevant staff and functions are now with the new Department. Mr. Loftus and I have both been working on this matter. We in the Department of Education and Skills have the pilot schools PPP bundle and the five other schools bundles and they will be staying with us. The new Department has responsibility for the contracts to which the Deputy referred, as well as the Grangegorman campus project and the planned PPP bundles for the institutes of technology sector. The responsibilities in this regard are being split between the two Departments.

In terms of the schools PPPs-----