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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I wish to come back to a couple issues, one of which is capacity in schools. The Department builds new schools. It knows the areas that are growing and have expanding populations, yet the schools being built do not have additional capacity. The upshot will be that prefabs will be required after a school is built because perhaps there is not another site available and it takes so long to get through the process. That would have been the case with Greystones, which I mentioned, as well as Naas. What is the thinking in respect of that approach?