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:
We have a great deal of engagement with the local authorities in respect of looking ahead and forward planning for need. The projects and schools the Deputy referred to relate to the Celbridge campus development. That site has been particularly difficult to acquire. NAMA has been involved. It has not been straightforward. To be honest and to be clear, it is not for the want of trying to get that quickly from the Department of Education’s perspective. It has come over the line now. In tandem with that, we have that campus development as part of our delivery structures with the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, which is a strong delivery partner for us. That will be working its way-----