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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: Okay. That has clarified 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: Do you have any control over 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 the Deputy.
- 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 a new member of the committee, Deputy Cannon. He is very welcome. He can take the next slot if he is ready to do so, or he can wait a little while.
- 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: You may go ahead. It is the first Fine Gael slot.
- 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: Sorry, I ask members to respect the Chair. One person has the floor. Members were not interrupted when they spoke. We must allow Deputy Cannon to speak as he is a new Deputy on the committee. Please continue, Deputy Cannon.
- 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.
- 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: Deputy Cannon has his ten minutes. He is a new Deputy here. It is his first morning and I want to be fair to him and to try to be balanced. Sometimes other members stray into policy a little bit and I try to give them a bit of latitude.
- 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 do not want anybody interjecting. Deputy Cannon has the floor. Deputy Cannon, without interruption.
- 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 Mr. Loftus. The next committee member to speak is Deputy McAuliffe.
- 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 are going to take a break for ten minutes.
- 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: Let us stay with the building theme for the moment. We have had conversations about faulty school buildings in the past but I want to revisit the matter. I will try to keep my questions short and it would help if Mr. Loftus kept the answers pretty brief as well. On how many buildings with faults has remediation been done in the past ten, 12 or 13 years?
- 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: How many overall? The question has nothing to do with legal cases.
- 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 are talking about 40.
- 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: There are about 40 schools. What was the expenditure to date on these?
- 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 know that. There was a particular group of buildings. I am looking for a rough answer. I do not expect Mr. Loftus to have the exact figure. Roughly how much did we spend? Was it €30 million, €40 million €50 million?
- 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: In the past ten or 12 years, the Department spent about €260 million on remediation works due to faults.
- 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: How much?
- 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: Are the 30% still before the courts?
- 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 what I am trying to get at. The expenditure is around €260 million.