Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 5 - Development of a Proposed National Science Centre
Chapter 6 - The OPW's Management of Office Accommodation
2:00 am
Joanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)
Has consideration been given at any stage, considering the length of time this has gone on, to end the project once and for all? Is there a way to buy out the contract rather than keep on incurring costs and costs with no end in sight? I ask that because there is an existing science centre on the outskirts of Dublin and there could be potential to agree a PPP with it if the focus was not on this project, which is going nowhere and continues to incur costs. Has there been any consideration to date of ending this catastrophe, which has been ongoing for a long time, and looking at a potential new avenue and new dawn?
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