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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: That is disappointing, particularly considering we hear these big announcements. As elected representatives, we all deal with individuals and schools where families are in desperate need of supports for their children. In that context, we do not have a definitive number as to how many of the additional SNA posts are actually in place. I want to touch on school buildings and get some...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: Twenty-four of those sites were in Dublin, and they cost €120 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: Yes, but are the figures I have here are correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: That would suggest that 41 sites outside of Dublin were acquired for €15 million or, basically, that two thirds of all sites were acquired for under 10% of the cost. I understand and everybody recognises the cost difference between Dublin and other areas. Are the schools or the sites also substantially bigger or is it all down to variations in property prices?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: But the question I asked was as follows. Of the schools that were provided between 2014 and 2018, from which I have extrapolated the figures I have cited, were those in Dublin substantially larger than the others? Does Mr. Loftus have information as to the number of students who were catered for within the 24 sites in Dublin versus the 41 elsewhere? Do we have a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: Yes, but we are talking about the entire State outside Dublin. Has the Department yet carried out an analysis as to the new sites that will need to be purchased both in Dublin and in the rest of the State between now and 2040?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: Can the Department provide us with the numbers for the new sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: Can I take it from that response that the Department does not have an actual figure as to the number of new sites that it plans to acquire in Dublin and outside of Dublin?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022) Matt Carthy: That would be useful. When we deal with school applications for minor works or emergency works, my understanding is - I have lost the figure. Maybe the witnesses could direct me to the cost of those works annually. It strikes me that those works are often school-led in the sense that a school will make an application to the Department, which generally takes quite a long time. Then there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: The Department has said the national broadband plan is 12 months behind schedule. Eight and a half of those months have been attributed to Covid, which is strange when one considers that works were permissible throughout the Covid period. The correspondence does not indicate whether a sanction has been applied to date regarding the other three and a half months' delay, which the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is what I would infer also. We need to have it clarified. Given the figures it is clear these guys are way off the targets at this point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: That is the information the Department provided us with at the previous hearing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: Can we look at R1335?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: It is in relation to the update on the implementation of our recommendations regarding the children's hospital.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: It is R1335. I thought that I had it flagged.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: I can hold off until next week, if that is what is easiest. Can we put that on the agenda for next week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: It is agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: First, I thank the correspondent for again bringing these important matters to the attention of the committee. There is a role for this committee, insofar as commitments have been given that the Comptroller and Auditor General would have oversight of what I understand to be more than €2.2 billion in expenditure that the State holds for wards of this nature. Could the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: Who has oversight and audit responsibility for this funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)
Matt Carthy: Will there be correspondence?