Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services

10:00 am

Ms Clare McGrath:

It is not just in Dublin but relates to the whole country. In certain circumstances one could talk, in the long-term, about acquiring sites, building buildings or whatever, but for a small demand. One would have to look at numbers in locations. The better option is to look at this on a cost-benefit and value-for-money basis, maybe to take a lease at a location. It is good economically that we are availing of space in the local market. I take the point made by the Chairman earlier that we might, for larger projects, identify locations and rent. International companies that have been in this country for quite a long time rent, and they reassess the situation after a period if their circumstances change.

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