Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Peter Finnegan:

The commission incurred some costs relating to the move to the Seanad Chamber. One of the big costs that was incurred in that related to the arrangement that was made between the Houses of the Oireachtas and the National Museum. In return for facilitating the Seanad, we agreed to provide funding towards the provision of a lift within the National Museum. We transferred that amount - it was €500,000 - at the end of last year, and that will be used now in terms of the capital programme for the museum.