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
James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
Is Mr. Conlon not gaslighting there a bit? The OPW's occupancy levels are at 30% to 45%, so it is effectively operating a functional vacancy across a whole State portfolio of properties, for which it is paying an annual rental lease amount, at least according to its annual documents, of €124 million. It is perpetrating one of the worst levels of vacancy as a single property owner that I can conceive of versus any private property owner. Does Mr. Conlon accept that contention?
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