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 Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This is not Monopoly money. It is just very hard to get my head around it.

I want to move on to discuss rapid build. I had a look at the definition of "rapid" and it does not sound like it matches what I am seeing in terms of the timescale for these. I want to raise the longevity of the buildings. I am most familiar with the development at Backweston. It is a sizeable site. There is a temporary protection up to March 2026. There is no planning permission for them because of the temporary nature and the exemptions. A big amount of the money would have gone into the services on the site. It is not just about putting in modular buildings, it is all of the other things that go with them. What happens then and has it been part of the discussion? What happens, for example, when the temporary protection is gone? Hopefully, it will be at the end of the war, but this could go on for a very long time and "temporary" stops. Has there been a discussion about the kind of tenancies involved? I presume the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be involved. Has that featured in the discussions at all?

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