Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services

10:00 am

Photo of Patrick O'DonovanPatrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the officials from the OPW. I wish to start with decentralisation and the property portfolio. A reply to a parliamentary question that I tabled in January 2015 stated that the Road Safety Authority, RSA, has a lease on a property in Ballina costing €442,828; in Carrick-on-Shannon, the Department of Social Protection has a 20-year lease for €600,000; while in Limerick the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has a 20-year lease for €900,000. These are just three examples from that reply, which went on to state that 142 capacity places were provided in Ballina. Will Ms McGrath tell me how many public servants there are in each of those locations, Ballina, Carrick-on-Shannon and Limerick?