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
11:10 am
Ms Geraldine Tallon:
Unfortunately, this was a particularly difficult contract. There were other measures in the initiative to release State lands. There had been one on an adjacent site at Harcourt Terrace for a 0.4 of an acre in 2004, where the site was exchanged for early delivery of 193 affordable homes.