Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I think the Department of Education has an issue, which it disclosed in its appropriation accounts in respect of - from memory - 40 schools, I think, in which there were problems. The problems were remediated and the schools were brought back into use. There is still an action against the contractors in that case. This seems to have predated the construction works that were part of the Department's claim. It is all the State against the same contractor. It seems to be saying in the letter that it may be better legally to have a coordinated approach.