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

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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It is important that we give civil servants and others the opportunity to co-work. I am a director of Innovate Dublin, which operates a co-working space in Ballymun and is partnering with the local authority in Dublin 8 on other projects. I would encourage the OPW to work with these types of organisation. They are not for profit, are in local authority buildings and are satisfying a need. State employees would be mixing with people in other creative industries and so on, which could only be to the benefit of all involved.