Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Public Accounts Committee
Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
1:45 pm
Mr. Cathal Guiomard:
A number of sites were considered when the office was set up. In the recent period, there was an announcement in 2009 that the office was to be merged with the National Transport Authority. That decision was not pursued. There was a subsequent decision about merging with the safety division of the Irish Aviation Authority. A number of merger proposals have been contemplated, which involve corresponding bodies in different locations, and if progress had been made on some of those by now and there was a location for whatever merged entity was going to result, there would have been an opportunity then to see what the rental arrangements, the office provision and so on needed to be. I wanted to avoid moving out of the office into another location, signing a rental agreement there and then finding another change had to be made thereafter. I would have expected the merger to have happened by now and we would have relocated to wherever the new office was going to be.
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