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:
Yes, but, obviously, in scenarios where there is a building coming to the end of its natural life or where a school is no longer required - and that is more typically the rural school - typically, they would not have received significant investment in modern times, so they would necessarily be a particular issue there. I look at those buildings from two perspectives. One, mentioned earlier, is about demographic projections and the 2040 national planning framework-----