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:
As I said earlier, we did a review of 396 projects that were in rented prefabs at the start of 2021. Some 12% of those schools were no longer in prefabs at the end of 2021 and we had a building pipeline for 80% of the remainder in terms of a pathway forward. There will be new projects coming into the pipeline too but in the main, with the way the demographics have evolved, I would see fewer new ones coming into rentals. My approach would be more to purchase modular accommodation and for that to become a solution and more the norm.