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. Hubert Loftus:
The challenges for the planning and building unit in the last decade have been a very significant increase in enrolments and the need to cater for additional capacity requirements. Those factors have been the main drivers of our expenditure requirements where both large-scale permanent capital projects and rental accommodation are concerned. The growth in numbers at primary level has now flattened out. The next decade will see a significant decrease in enrolments at primary level. We are still in the phase of increasing enrolments at post-primary level and we will be for several years.