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:
On rented prefabs, as an example, we provided a report to this committee on that aspect and we did a review of it last year. We set out a list of 396 schools that had rented prefabs at the start of 2021. That equates to about 10% of schools overall. We then did a review at the end of 2021. Over the course of that year, about 12% of those rentals had ceased. We had building projects in train for about 80% of those schools and we were working through the balance in respect of a delivery mechanism.