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:
Yes. Well, we have our site acquisition programme. The point I was going to make is that there would be less of a requirement for new schools in the context of that cycle of demographics. The wider point I will make is that our focus when it comes to Government policy is very much on compact growth, which is putting more of the housing developments in existing areas, which in turn will be of benefit to us from a schools perspective to maximise the value of existing sites.