Dept to spend €50m on retrofitting 14 schools

Education Minister Norma Foley said the energy efficient retrofit pathfinder scheme is paving the way for, and informing, a much larger schools decarbonisation programme. Picture: Moya Nolan

The Department of Education is to spend €50m to retrofit just 14 schools across the country.

That compares to the €110m which it has spent since 2017 on retrofitting some 64 schools under the school retrofitting pathfinder programme.