Written answers
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Department of Education and Skills
Departmental Policies
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to her Department recruiting on a permanent basis architects, engineers, and quantity surveyors in order to provide in-house design team support for school capital projects; if any analysis has been carried out on the potential savings of such an approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12945/24]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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There are currently 42 professional and technical staff employed in the Planning and Building Unit of my Department. The grades working in this unit consist of Senior Quantity Surveyors, Senior Building Service Engineers, Senior Civil and Structural Engineers, Senior Architects, Architects, Architectural Assistants and Senior Technical Officers who are led by Technical Managers. In 2023, the Department ran three open competitions for the grades of Senior Quantity Surveyor, Senior Building Services Engineer and Architect. In 2024, it is planned that the Department will run additional professional and technical competitions via the Public Appointments Service in order to strengthen and enhance the existing capacity of the Planning and Building Unit in response to the growing demand of services required to support the Department’s School Building Programme under its National Development Plan commitments.
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