Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)

Photo of Patrick O'DonovanPatrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Broadly, I have no difficulty with the report. It is timely in light of the national development plan. We in the Office of Public Works are on a journey of renewal and I want to modernise the office. Any critique that is available and helps that modernisation effort is timely and welcome.

To return to the Chairman's question about heading B6, it relates to matters such as mechanical and electrical fabric upgrade programming, boiler replacement and the fourth quarter dome repairs, which, as the Chairman can imagine, is a €4 million programme. I will get the committee a copy of the out-turns for that heading. Some of the programmes are fairly substantial.

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