Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 July 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate

9:30 am

Mr. Hubert Loftus:

There are five stages. We take a structured approach, in line with the public spending code, to the appraisal, design, tendering and construction. The value of that structured approach means that projects are well-designed and well-developed before going to tender and construction. For the benefit of the committee, we have recently done a review of projects that have a contract price, which is the tender price, to see how that compares with the final account. That can be an indication of what particular issues might have arisen on-site. Across a large number of projects-----