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 wish to add to Ms Conduit’s point. The Chair raised the point. It is very logical to use the capacity in the local school and work that through. The general point I would make is that is the very same approach and logic that we have been using in terms of providing and identifying school accommodation options for all of the Ukrainian children who are in our schools. There are more than 7,000 of them. We set up teams at ETB level with the wider stakeholders as well. We in the planning and building unit provide those teams with all of the capacity information about all of the schools and where the children are enrolled. The scenario the Chair raised, albeit it is a local scenario for him, is the wider concept for us in terms of forward planning to make sure that-----