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

Mr. Maurice Buckley:

It was procured in 2014 and came into effect in 2015. At that stage, the construction industry was in a very bad place, recovering from the recession of 2010. The prices were very competitive. In the years that followed, construction inflation was running at 7%, 8% or 9% per year, so the prices were going up. We-----

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