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 Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is that the Department of Social Protection and Revenue or is it just Revenue around the corner? Mr. Buckley does not know. I might come back with specific questions separate from that. It is interesting because that building remained empty for a very long time. It was to be a flagship building in Galway with new modern hubs but it remained empty. Suddenly it was rescued by State rents over a process.

State rents have rescued a building in Galway. Social welfare is at one end and Revenue is at the other. It is a story for another day because it should have become a public building. It is now privately rented. This is what I would love to be discussing today but I have run out of time. We are now renting a building that should have been publicly acquired because there should have been a return to the taxpayer in Galway. Again, there was a problem. It was not a recalibration problem and it was not a measurement problem. What was the problem here?

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