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

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Do not get me wrong; I would be the first to say a science centre is very important and significant for the State but I am just questioning the mechanism behind the issues in front of us.

I want to jump back in on the issue of measured term maintenance expenditure. We had a budget of roughly €20 million from 2018 to 2022, amounting to a total of roughly €120 million, for want of a better number. Obviously, a bit of money was spent in 2023 and 2024. Was that just an overlay from a previous period, or did it relate to unaccrued invoices or something?

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