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
Ms Bernie McNally:
In terms of rental, as the Deputy knows, the committee a number of years ago asked us to take an in-depth look at the use of rental properties over five years, and we have since done a huge amount of work on that. In February 2021, there were 396 schools that had been using rented prefabs for more than five years. That had reduced to 219 in April 2024, so there has been a significant reduction.