PAC urges review as school prefabs cost State €56m in two years

Expenditure on temporary school accommodation in 2018 amounted to €26.2m, increasing to €29.5m in 2019.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called on the Department of Education to carry out a review of the use of temporary accommodation in schools, which has cost the State almost €56m in the last two years.

PAC on Friday published its report, Examination of the 2018 and 2019 Appropriation Accounts for Vote 26 – Education and Skills, finding that one school had been using prefabricated classrooms on a temporary basis since 2000.