Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin

9:30 am

Mr. Maurice Buckley:

It is a very good point. We are aware of this issue and will feed it back. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is also aware. Deputy Dillon will know the site at Claremorris, which is an OPW site. It is proving very difficult in the time we have available. Rathdowney came through the process relatively recently. We have evaluated something like 73 sites in total around the country at this stage. Three quarters are not suitable for some reason or other. We are conscious all of the time of people sleeping in tents and the numbers coming in every day. It is very hard to balance that but we will pass the Chair's comments on to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

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