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
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
I will comment briefly on that issue. I am not over the detail of all of this, but the idea of an Irish children’s science museum in and of itself seems to be a good one. The Iveagh Gardens, however, is a very important amenity and we must look at the potential impact on it, as well as the cost issues. Many questions have been raised with us and I believe thousands of submissions have been made that seriously question the location, the potential costs, the case for this, etc. This correspondence we received raises a number of detailed questions on what I think the OPW identified as our obligation to build this thing. It seems extraordinary that we have an obligation to build something. We could do with the OPW giving us answers to some of these questions before-----
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