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
11:30 am
Ms Clare McGrath:
The preference would always be that it would be vacant before we would be completing. That is what was ultimately signed up to in the contract. In the signing of this agreement in 2007, when Kevin Street was on the move, we would always have had a mind to doing whatever was necessary to have it vacated by the date. In the doing of that, we would have been looking at alternative, temporary, interim accommodation during 2008. However, that was not proving feasible in the vicinity of Dublin 2. That is why we commenced discussions with the developer with a view to transferring it and leasing it back.