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:

For every building project there is professional support available to schools. It should not necessarily fall on the head of a school principal. There is a design team there and its job is to manage the delivery. One thing I have done as part of reforming how we do our business and setting us up more strategically to do that is to put in professional management supports. We put them into education and training boards. They are a good support for delivering projects both inside and outside of the education and training board sector. There are also buildings officers in other key stakeholders too. There are a lot of professional supports being put in there to help, streamline and support delivery. If there is a particular case we will certainly look into it and get back to the Deputy.