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:
To be honest, I do not know the history of the individual project in terms of the time it took to work through NAMA, to what extent there was developer involvement or not that NAMA was using as leverage or things like that. I do not know the full details. At a more general level, the Department would have been looking at all opportunities for getting sites as quickly as possible through the State and through NAMA, and everything else as part of its site acquisition programme. We would have been successful in other areas in terms of engagement with NAMA as well.