Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

4:30 pm

Mr. John McMahon:

As I said, the intent was to attract suitable contractors to bid for the work. At the time we went out in 2018, the market was flying. Very many contractors had more work on their order books than they could handle. Unfortunately, in my interpretation, it was more to do with the timing of the advertisement of the contract, which was at the expiration of the previous contract.

It is for those reasons that we got a disappointing return. I do not think it was anything to do with-----