Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

4:30 pm

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My colleague, Deputy Devlin, spoke about the impact of Covid and how it might make the Civil Service consider office space and so on. I am afraid that there will only be a debate between central Dublin and those counties outside Dublin. However, there is an important sector in the middle, namely, the outer Dublin suburbs. There is a building in the centre of Finglas that is largely empty, that being, the old General Medical Services, GMS, facility. It is no longer controlled by the OPW. There are plenty of sites in the outer suburbs that could be used. What are the OPW's plans to address the balance of office space?

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