Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Yes, I remember his name. That school was in prefabs at the time.

Seeing the conditions at Kolbe is believing. It is intolerable. We will copy our correspondence to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. The Deputy is correct to say that Department was cited. The issue of construction inflation arose at the meeting last night regarding projects that have been put back and what will happen with tender costs and so on. I told them not to worry on that front. People were worried that inflation could run at 4% or 5%. I said inflation is running at 100% on the children's hospital and we are still ploughing ahead with that, so it should not stop the school if the same rules apply.