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
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The issue is obviously the content of the contract. Can the witnesses give us an insight into the process of formulating that contract and how we ended up with a contract that had no 'Plan B' or get-out clause if vacant possession could not be secured? I detect from some of Ms McGrath's earlier comments that the OPW had a degree of reservation about engaging in a project where there was not vacant possession. Is that a fair interpretation?