Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011

11:40 am

Mr. Adrian Neilan:

They were not because clearly - we subsequently helped our engineers understanding of it - this was not an item for contract. This was not a contracted item; this was best efforts basis. The land was bought as it stood. The person endeavoured to say he would fill the site if fill became available but it was not a contracted term. That is where the confusion lies. I am happy to confirm once and for all that it was never part of the sale. It made no sense to be part of the sale. It was never going to be written into a legal contract. Would we have loved for it to have been written into a legal contract? Of course, but it was never part of it.