Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

1:10 pm

Mr. John Pollock:

We certainly have those figures, although I do not have them with me today, concerning historically how much the previous board spent on renting accommodation in Parnell Square. My understanding is that once the Mater decision was made - and obviously there was a question mark over the project - the business services team contracts were terminated, so we needed much more modest accommodation. The HSE had accommodation in Sir Patrick Dun's, so a decision was made to retrench to rent-free accommodation there. I can give the committee what was spent previously.