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

11:20 am

Ms Clare McGrath:

It was to include the station on Harcourt Street. That is why we said we would concur with this. We may have had questions because we would prefer to have the site vacant - we would have prefer to have the other one built. We work in the environment in which we are where we have to deal with things. If one thing is not going to work for us, we look at other ones. This was the situation in 2008. We were on-site on Kevin Street on an enabling works contract because there was substantial archaeology on the site. I take the point about risk assessment, but once this began we were in the mode of asking how we could respond to the risks and the issues that were arising.