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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 am asking what measures the Department has taken. New projects are ongoing. I have spoken to Mr. Loftus outside this forum about new projects, and I welcome all the new developments. I have been raising other developments with him. We do not want to have to come back to discuss developments that are happening now. We do not want whoever comes after us to be here in ten years' time...
- 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: Is Mr. Loftus able to give the committee a commitment? This is our job, on behalf of the taxpayer and those who put us into these Houses. Will Mr. Loftus give me an assurance that there is now a clerk of works or a person with similar qualifications doing spot checks?
- 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 in this country learned one hard lesson during the Celtic tiger period. Some good work was done and some awful work was done. We cannot rely on contractors and developers alone. There has to be oversight. That was the case with private development and I am talking here about public development and taxpayers' money.
- 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 cannot have such a situation. I welcome the commitment Mr. Loftus has made in respect of small and large projects. It is important that unannounced and regular checks take place. Clerks of works in local authorities are like busy bees. They go around and call unannounced regularly, sometimes on a daily basis, to check stuff. It is so important for the quality of work. Local authority...
- 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.
- 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: Wall ties were one of the issues.
- 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: Such omissions should not happen.
- 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 have some other questions about buildings and the school hall or sports hall issue. St. Fergal's College in Rathdowney has applied for a hall. There have been meetings with Ministers and Department officials. Some of the witnesses were at those meetings. The school is growing in size because there Ukrainian and international protection children in town. St. Fergal's has had planning...
- 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: What is the case for St. Fergal's?
- 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.
- 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 increasing numbers now in St. Fergal's. There is no sports hall in south Laois. It is not just that there is no sports hall in that school but there is none in that part of south Laois. A whole one third of the county is without an indoor sports facility. I ask Mr. Loftus to come back to the committee on 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: I also want to ask about modular building at Kolbe Special School. I have raised this matter over and over again. Ministers have come down and films and videos have been made about it. At the moment, the accommodation works have been held up and there have been different delays over the years. The staff and parents are challenged. I visited that school when the pupils were there. The...
- 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: Just tell me where that project is at now.
- 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 all that. I asked about now, Mr. Loftus.
- 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: Next Monday. That is good news. What is the timeline for completion? I know it is in the hands of the contractor and I do not want to put Mr. Loftus on the spot. Roughly what time does he expect?
- 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: The other question relates to Coláiste Dhún Másc. We have spoken about forward planning and so on. There is a huge need for places at secondary level and at primary level, which we will come back to later in the context of Portlaoise. What is happening with Coláiste Dhún Másc?
- 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: Please do.
- 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 Mr. Loftus been in Portlaoise lately?
- 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: New housing estates have mushroomed around the 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: Okay. We will come back to that.