Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

9:30 am

Photo of Marc Ó CathasaighMarc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Great. I subsidised the private sector. That is fantastic. I am running out of time but I had questions around the fact that these units were developed in conjunction with the Construction Industry Federation. When these are rapid-build units and modern methods of construction are in use all over the world, why could we not find an off-the-peg solution to suit the sites we were using? We are not reinventing the wheel here. We are acting in the middle of a crisis. There were six months to do this. We were mandated to get going on it in April but we did not get anywhere until October. There were six months where we-----

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