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:
Otherwise, one would have to fund the capital investment for both acquisition and whatever. We have moved, in regard to our surrenders, to holding more owned estate. As I have said previously, at all times we will have regard to the property register. For example, if a local authority in an area has a local authority office then we could avail of it. We might have to pay the local authority rent, but it would still be movement within the public sector. In some of these instances, that is what some of these rents would be. The Deputy was right to say that we have largely obtained them in the market. We will revert to the Chairman on the matter for the larger ones.
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