Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion
Mr. Robert Watt:
We agree on that and on the footprint. We have approximately 16,000 civil servants in the centre of the city of Dublin. Accommodation is expensive. This is an issue for us. Do we need to have all of those services provided centrally in Dublin? We have a number of buildings that we were in and which we have now vacated. Consequently, we have demands to lease and build new offices. This is an issue for us.