Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
10:50 am
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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This is in Judge Charlton's opening sentence in his judgment. We will leave aside what the witness, developer or Chief State Solicitor's office thinks. The judge has the final word on this and he is giving those values. At the best possible value, he says it was €17.7 million. A key body that is not represented here today and which remarkably is mentioned several times in the judgment is the Chief State Solicitor's office. Did this legal wrangling end up costing us the difference between €31 million and the €17 million that the site was worth at best in its heyday?