Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Joseph Nugent:

Part of the overrun related to the environment in which the contractors found themselves. On the Kevin Street Garda station, for example - which I am particularly familiar with - they had difficulties in delivering on the contract where works went beyond what was originally envisaged.