Remit Item 3:
"Establish the reasons(s) for, and necessity of, the school closures, including a review of the reasons for the Oxgangs Primary School wall collapse."
• This section of the Report will address the fundamental question asked in Remit Item 3 as to the reasons for the collapse of the wall and the subsequent closure of the schools.
• There are two distinct aspects to this Remit Item, which although connected, will be dealt with separately. The first of these is the reason for the collapse of the wall at Oxgangs School, the second is the reason for the enforced closures of the 17 PPP1 projects.
• The analysis of the Inquiry on these issues is based on the information set down previously in Section 5 which gave a detailed chronology of events from the collapse of the wall at Oxgangs School through to the reopening of the closed schools. It also relies on the accuracy of the observations made by the various teams of structural engineers in their written reports and in their evidence to the Inquiry.