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:
Grangegorman has moved over and that is under the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The Department of Education purchased Cathal Brugha Street, which was a former DIT building, and Rathmines. At Cathal Brugha Street, we did a lease arrangement with the City of Dublin ETB and that provides us with a very good opportunity for four schools with 2,500 students in permanent accommodation, and with significant special needs provision. That is a good strategic use of that asset from a State perspective and creates a college of further education in the north part of the city, which would be good for the north inner city as well. To answer the question about Grangegorman, that is under the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. We have a primary school on the margins of that campus which is currently under construction.