Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Edward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
My questions are for the Minister of State, Deputy Moran. I have only four questions.
First of all, returning to the building that Deputy Nash referred to in Dublin city centre, I have a technical question. The nine-page document states there is a payback of eight years and it is a €24 million capital cost. That would imply a rental saving of €3 million per annum but yet I see, on the cash flow saving the Minister of State sets out on page 8, a saving of €1.6 million for a quarterly rent. That would imply over €6 million annual rent. Am I missing something there? The payback implies €3 million, whereas the quarterly rent implies a €6 million saving.
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