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. Jim Casey:

Certainly not. We are a long way from construction work starting. We do not really have a longer term schedule on the project until we bottom out on the modelling issues. When we conclude the modelling issues next year, we will be able to put together a more definitive timeline for the conclusion of the project. As I said to the Deputy earlier, typically stage 2 on these projects is between one and two years, the next stage, detailed design, would be a year and then construction typically takes about three to four years, depending on the scale of the project. That is just an indicative timeline.

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