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
Mr. John Conlon:
I will take it from the OPW's perspective. In relation to the bike shelter, I published a report on that last year. I was very candid in that report. I acknowledged that that project should not have gone ahead in the way it did. Since then, we have put in new capital procedures for projects under €500,000. They were rolled out in the earlier part of this year. That is a substantial way of reacting to the point the Deputy just made to make sure that in those capital projects we have a good governance process in place. I am determined to continue with that and we have done that. That is how I have addressed that particular bike shelter project. As I said, I was quite frank and candid in the bike shed report I published last year on that. We have undertaken to do those new procedures. We have put them in place and we are monitoring them.
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