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:

Life has moved on a bit from divestment. We are more into the reconfiguration approach rather than divestment. With reconfiguration, essentially, the scenario is that it is, to a large degree, a live school environment and a live school reconfiguring from a denominational school to a multi-denominational school. This is the approach we have and the engagement we have been having with the church. We have had intensive engagement with the church in the last year. I have led on this from the Department’s perspective. Earlier this year, we announced the pilot areas-----