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 Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I am only interested in recouping the moneys as laid out by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We lost €21 million in advance given the 17-month delay in getting into the building, which the Comptroller and Auditor General valued at €11 million. We have lost €10 million in rent, at €344,000 per month. Since we first met, we have clocked up about €1.3 million in losses in that regard. In terms of doing right by the people and getting this money back, the witnesses implied that the rent review was an opportunity to do that. It is not.

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