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:

I would like to be in a position where we could begin to talk about, and reflect on, not needing it to continue but we have very ambitious plans for Grangegorman. The full realisation of that will take some time, so we are not really into planning the standing down of the authority, although that would certainly be something. I do not know whether we plan to stand it down or maintain it as a continuing body. There is a lot of needed development under way. There are the PPPs, the traditional builds, the sale of buildings by DIT, building and so on. There are also capital requests for further development on the site. I do not think the development agency is really reflecting on whether it might not be needed because the outlook is very busy for a good five to ten years.