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

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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It is good that this is happening and that there is this kind of joined-up thinking. Can Mr. Loftus come back to the Committee of Public Accounts? We will probably have a recommendation that this overarching agreement is expedited because it has been highlighted twice. It was 13 years ago now, and it is important that it is done.

We will go back to the special educational needs organisers, SENO, for a minute. In the context of the earlier question, how many SENOs were there this time last year?

How many do we have now? That may tell us what progress there has been on the 1,100 extra ones. How many were there in May 2021 and how many were there in June 2022?