Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills

9:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We established the Grangegorman Development Agency a number of years ago. We felt the project was such a major undertaking that it would be appropriate to have an agency to undertake the work. The agency is managing a number of different projects in the health and education sectors. We felt that, given the expertise needed and so on, it would be appropriate to establish a separate agency to work with ourselves, the Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT and the Higher Education Authority, HEA.