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 have had sessions at this committee before on that. There are two broad reasons for it. There is the modular element itself, which was fairly cost effective. What drove the cost substantially in a lot of cases was poor sites, getting access to services - power and wastewater - and very small sites. In retrospect, looking back on this, which is one of the learnings from the projects, if we are going to deliver further modular homes, we need to do them on better sites and better serviced sites.
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