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 Geraldine Tallon:
I think we all have to share responsibility for the way this turned out. I am not in a position to start apportioning blame. The focus in my Department was on the delivery of affordable housing. We thought this was a very good deal under which 215 housing units would be delivered on a site which was assessed architecturally as only being capable of bearing a maximum of 52 units.