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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I want Mr. Loftus to come back to the committee with information on ASD units because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I am asking about need in the county at primary and post-primary level.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Will Ms Mannion assure me today that each child in County Laois who has been diagnosed as needing this and is now on the list for an ASD unit will have a place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Mannion. I ask for a list of those that have been approved.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I will raise the conditions in the two ASD modular units at Barrowhouse National School in which the principal, teachers and other staff are working. The units were held up for years because the school was told to get a design team and do the work and preparation itself. That went on for years. Then the units were delayed and the Department of Education stepped in and told the school to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: That is all right. I take that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Will the principal, Ms Pauline Lawlor, and her staff have that project in place by September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Has the building started?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I said a minute ago that the Department has a framework agreement with the company, so it sets the priorities for the company.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: I am asking Mr. Loftus about this issue because the school has no physical extra space at the moment. The school has also applied for permanent classrooms which it also needs. The most chronic need is for two modular classrooms for the ASD classes. What is in place at the moment is totally unsuitable. I ask Mr. Loftus to give that project absolute priority.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Has he visited the school? Has he seen it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Mr. Loftus should read the architect's report on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Will Mr. Loftus send me a note on the project?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: It is really urgent that this project is done.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: Yes. Go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: That brings the meeting to a conclusion. I thank the witnesses and staff of the Departments of Education and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for the work involved in preparing for today's meeting. As it is the first time some of them have been before the committee, I want to acknowledge that some of the questioning was a bit robust. I have to be fair to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: We have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Brian Stanley: That is always useful and it saved time today. I appreciate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The minutes of our meeting of 9 May 2024 have been circulated. Do members wish to raise any matters in respect of the minutes? Is everybody satisfied that they are accurate? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published...