Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

2:00 am

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I thank Mr. McKeon very much for bringing colour to that.

Peter, I want to go back to the issue with the OPW and that relationship. I get the relationship, but as Deputy Dolan also alluded to, there is that reputational risk. In fairness, Mr. Finnegan referenced it as well. Representatives from the OPW will probably be in front of us sooner rather than later. The OPW does great work too. I do not want to be negative but at the same time, unfortunately, we have been let down in certain spheres. I do not think anybody would deny that, especially with the bike shed and even closer to home with Castletown House. No one is infallible. Even in the future, what does Mr. Finnegan feel might be the best way to manage that relationship and that process? If he were to hand one mined piece of information to someone in the future, what would he say we could do differently to help things?

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