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
Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
Okay. I would like to see that figure because, with 2,500 staff, I imagine a lot of the work could be done in-house. We do not need to pay €25,000 for consultants. I just find right across all the Departments that there is an over-usage of consultants when we have staff on site already, to decide if it was good value. Did anything happen in relation to that? If it was €385,000, were there any penalties? Was anybody reprimanded? Did anything happen after you the report for €25,000 was done?
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