Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon - Annual Accounts 2011

11:50 am

Mr. Adrian Neilan:

We have answered the first question already. The Deputy is asking me about a side letter that was to be signed regarding fill coming on board. However, at that point in time it was very evident to us that the fill was not coming in. On reflection, we should have signed that letter but we would still have incurred additional costs. We would still have had to go off and source fill ourselves. Signing a letter that allowed fill, in a haphazard way, to come into the site was never going to result in the development of the site. The fill was not coming on site in the volume needed. Once the construction slowdown happened and once there was no fill coming on site, the board was faced with the fact of having to buy it.