Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission
2:00 am
Mr. Michael Errity:
I am satisfied. Just to say a few words about the situation with the OPW, we have had a long and fruitful relationship with the OPW. I chaired the steering group for the restoration of historic Leinster House. It was €16.5 million. There was no over-run except the contingency that was allowed by the Department of public expenditure for a historic building. We had a long and fruitful relationship with the OPW; confidence would have been high. I know the initial location for the shelter at the back of Agriculture House was denied for security reasons, which I will not go into, and the OPW then prioritised trying to complete the task and best endeavours were put in place. Unfortunately, nobody anticipated the cost of a bike shelter was one for which there would have to be a detailed cost-benefit analysis-----
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