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:
We invested a lot of time in putting that business case together. As we published in our statement two weeks ago, we procured the services of Lisney to help us in the property negotiation and property assessments. We put particular focus on a strategic purchase. We were prepared to go up to 50% over the existing market value. I and my Minister of State, along with our colleagues in the Department of public expenditure, worked together in realising that. We then put a very robust business case together. I think the combination of all those factors realised the outcome we got.
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