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

Mr. Maurice Buckley:

There is a delay. There is a period between December 2016, when the rent payment started for the building, and the occupancy of the building, as set out in the report, in April or May of 2018. There was 15 months. That period needs to be understood properly and it has not been as of yet. No matter what tenants do in a new building, they have to take possession of the building before they can fit out that building for whatever reason they want to use it. We could not commence any work related to the OPW or client Department occupation of that building until we had possession of it.

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