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:

No, I would not use that phrase. I think people were acting in the best interests, at all times, of the bodies which they were representing, having regard to the legal complexities around the transaction. That was the case but there are certainly lessons to be learned, particularly in the area of the co-ordination of intra-State property transactions.