Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The work can be seen, physically, but has the Minister of State quantified the level of overrun with regard to the €15 million? Does the Minister of State envisage or guess that it is €5 million, or are there actual reports from the contractors or individuals on site to say "Lads this is going to cost X percentage more". These things cannot be guessed. Will the Minister of State tell us how he established the amount by which the work will increase?