Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011

11:10 am

Mr. Adrian Neilan:

We had budgeted the overall limit at the outset. We selected the site for the reasons outlined. The vendor stated that he would fill the site on a best efforts basis. It was not a term in the contract. Like any approach to project management would, we reduced the overall budget's expectation of how much fill we would need, given our expectation that it would be provided. When we found out a year later that the fill would not be brought in due to the economic collapse, we procured the fill separately.