Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Engagement with Office of Public Works
1:30 pm
Mr. John Conlan:
I want to emphasise that that followed an extensive review of security in this campus by the Garda Síochána technical advisory group. While it looks like, and is a fairly significant cost, there are very significant mechanical and electrical security system costs in that. There was also a significant cost to provide a temporary structure while that building was taking place. There was significant underground works. There was significant ventilation, data communications, CCTV, ramping into a control centre, a significant substructure, and a significant rerouting of underground services. So there was a huge security element to this project.
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