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:
I am disappointed if that is the perception the Deputy has of the planning and building unit. I came in as head of the unit in October 2017. One of my priorities was focusing on delivery of the national development plan. That is a significant programme of investment. It was revised last year and we have a €4.4 billion programme over the period 2021 to 2025. To give a sense of the scale of what we are delivering, between 2018 and 2021 we delivered almost 700 school building projects across the country. We do not focus on any particular area such as Cork or wherever. My job has a national remit and focuses on that.
In terms of transparency, I believe we are transparent. We have a published list of all our school building projects on our website and we update it monthly, giving the current status-----