Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

For Silvermines, the cost of the final work relates to the Garryard tailings site. It is a distinct and separate phase and is not deemed critical to the overall success of the work completed to date. Approximately €10 million is required to carry out that work. We do not have a budget agreed yet to complete the work and we need to undertake a review of the works required to remediate Garryard to get a final figure on that. That is the Silvermines site. We have done the bulk of the work that was required on the Silvermines site.