Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

9:30 am

Mr. David Delaney:

I will just give a bit of context. This is a very different type of thing and a different process in that we would be going out to the market to purchase as opposed to going out to the market to lease to us. We do not want to commit to what type of properties we could potentially focus on because that might stimulate the market to over charge or over price. It is absolutely the case that cost effectiveness will be a big factor here.