Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I met with the school principals and I have a list of suggestions. For example, we need to handle insurance better. There is much more co-operation that could happen around insurance. Much more co-operation could happen, and I know it does, around the group purchase of electricity and utilities and so on. We could be supporting schools to reduce their costs a lot more. There is value for money for the Department there as well.