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:

Let us picture a scenario whereby we have a Catholic school in a patron-owned building and that school reconfigures, for argument’s sake, into an Educate Together school or a community national school. The existing live school reconfigures. The ownership of the building itself remains with the patron or trustee. The building does not come over with the school per se. Therefore, it is nearly the reverse of the situation where a building is owned by the Minister. The reconfigured school in this scenario is essentially a tenant in the building already there.