Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Noel Waters:
Yes. The OPW was brought into this almost from the word go to see if any other State organisation or one of its clients could use it. At some stage last year we approached the Dublin homeless regional executive to see if it would have use for it in the context of the homelessness situation. That did not prove possible. Had another use been found for it, we would have had to go for planning permission.