Planned new schools ‘will not be affected by PPP changes’

THE Department of Education has given assurances to school management bodies that the delivery of five planned new second-level buildings will not be affected by proposed changes to the ownership of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts.

As talks continue between schools’ contract holders Jarvis and German firm Hochtief, department officials emphasised that the terms of the deals will not be changed in any way.

Part of Jarvis’s business was taken over last year by Hochtief, clearing the way for work to get underway on the Cork School of Music project.