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
Mr. Hubert Loftus:
Yes. All of our large-scale projects have a clerk of works. We would have also contacted the smaller scale projects, costing up to €1 million or more, to make a clerk of works available. We see that as important. As a general point, the primary responsibility rests with the contractor. There are design teams that carry out inspections, progress meetings and all of that. The clerk of works is an additional element to that and not the sole element.