Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)

9:00 am

Mr. John Curtin:

It would not have been a grant. Basically, we would have had engagement with the tenant and as landlord of the property, we had an agreement that we would fund certain works on the fabric of the property to allow the tenant occupy the property or to engage with their business on the property, but it was not a grant. It was expenditure on the fabric of the property. The protocols on that expenditure were agreed with the tenant. It would come out of and be treated as part of the maintenance of one of the State's property portfolio.