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
Ms Rosemary Collier:
I thank the Deputy. We appreciate it is a really important piece of heritage locally. It is in the safe hands of our team at the Athenry depot and well looked after. As Mr. Conlon says, there is planning permission for a scheme. We have reviewed the costs. The costs were probably prohibitive in terms of the scale of cost associated with the scheme that was designed, so we have sent it back for a bit of a redesign. It will need ministerial consent from the Minister for heritage but there are some property issues. We answered a recent parliamentary question to say that has been resolved and the carpark is now in the full ownership of the State.
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