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)

Mr. Maurice Buckley:

It is difficult. Certainly, track record in terms of whether a contractor has done the particular work involved or whether it has done projects of that scale can be taken into account. However, behaviour or reputation as an "honest Joe" or otherwise cannot. It has to be objective.