Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Office of Public Works

10:50 am

Ms Clare McGrath:

Not in respect of this job, but we have many different types of properties and projects so one size does not fit all. A particular type of accommodation may come up later where we undertake works that are unique to us. With flood risk management there are not necessarily private sector comparators because we probably are the main ones in relation to those. How do we develop norms for that? We would have internal norms for cells in Garda stations. There are not private industry standards for those. We use private contractors for all of the work, and then continue looking at how we can drive more efficiencies around that but in ordinary course in relation to office accommodation, there is no industry norm for such fit-outs in protected structures. They talk about executive fit-outs but not in protected structures, which is an added layer within this project that would not necessarily have been the case when one considers the Bruce Shaw figures. They are now revised again for 2013. We always have an eye to those. We always start a job with a brief - what is being asked, where am I to give effect to that?

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