Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed)

12:10 pm

Mr. Paul Maloney:

That was because of the three criteria the executive laid down for being a joint venture partner with a State body.

These were: No. 1 trust and dependability; No. 2, had to have extensive experience of very high quality developments; and No. 2, had to be capable of doing one of the biggest sites. We had dealt with every developer in docklands and I am not going to name them, but we did not have those criteria met, particularly on the trust, on the community issues and all of those others - we wanted to deliver social housing and so on. So I was very clear that the number of candidates for us was very limited and I do believe the two we selected were the top two.

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