Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
2:00 pm
Mr. John McMahon:
The expenditure to Actavo was just under €5 million. The company was contracted on the basis of a framework contract that was already in place. As I explained earlier, as we do many events other than the papal mass, we have framework contracts in place from which we draw. The drawing on the framework contracts in this instance was necessitated by the fact that the confirmation of the papal visit and the State support for it only happened in the middle of the year, in mid-June, and we only had weeks to prepare for that.