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 David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Here is my concern. This comes up over and over again. We saw it with NAMA and different organisations. Sometimes I believe it is deliberate and intentional not to put these benchmarks in place because then organisations can do what they want to do or maybe it is easier for them. I believe it goes back to some of the correspondence provided in 2014. Mr. Bourke seems perplexed by my contribution. It is bizarre that the board would not have been given the information on the alternatives it should have been given. That is not some sort of minor oversight. It is fundamental to the Comptroller and Auditor General doing his job and for us to adjudicate as to whether we got value for money.

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