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 do not have those figures but we did continue to have staff working there and so we always had staff costs there. We had some security costs and we had some security issues down there that we had to deal with both in Castletown and in the adjoining property in Donaghcumper. They were significant costs we had to deal with. Management of the estate, even though it was closed, still requires ongoing maintenance insofar as we could do it in terms of access for vehicles, etc. There are always operating costs and so on, but there were additional security costs involved as well. We just met those on an ongoing basis but I do not have the figures with me.
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