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:
-----but the general point I was going to make is a clerk of works can be a rare enough species, particularly a good clerk of works. One of the things I am conscious of in the more complex buildings we have - a new 1,000-pupil school can be a very complex building - is that we might be moving more into the sphere of maybe a resident engineer as distinct from a clerk of works, just given the increased complexity there can be in large-scale buildings.