No schools fitted with solar panels a year on from climate announcement

Ahead of last year’s budget, the Government announced it was to pay for solar panels for the country’s 4,000 schools as part of the summer works programme.

Not one school has yet been fitted with solar panels a year on from when the €50m climate action scheme was first announced, the Oireachtas education committee has heard.

The committee met on Tuesday with officials from the school building unit of the Department of Education.