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
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Once the contract was signed by the Department with the developer, the genie was out of the bottle. Did anyone look to see if the dominos were lined up? Was the Department under pressure to push ahead with this site and get it over the line? I do not fully understand why such pressure was applied at the peak of the market to push for this particular site.