Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand. However, the point I am making is that it has taken almost 11 months to produce a relatively short report.

I refer to the move from Hawkins House. The OPW seems to want to lease rather than build property for the State. In circumstances where the OPW is moving out of a building it owns, namely, Hawkins House, to a building on which the State has a 25-year lease, is this illustrative of a policy on the part of the State to get out of owning property that it knows will be required ad infinitum? Why is-----

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