Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)

1:30 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that and appreciate the difficulties. I acknowledge that some of my questions are on projects initiated prior to the Minister of State's time in the Department. There are officials who have been there a lot longer than he has. This is not something new. A private company would be able to pinpoint the problems. It would not have stated seven schemes would start in 2015 but none of them actually started. It would have been out of business and liquidated by the end of the year. Can one imagine a large construction company stating it will start seven major projects and none of them starting? Last year, when the Minister of State attended the committee, he identified the number of schemes scheduled to be completed in 2016. Have they been completed?

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