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. Martin Bourke:

The biggest focus in acquiring that site was the buying out of leases for use with the adjoining Government building. The €1.34 million was to buy out three leases that were on the car parking, and then the additional land, as it transpired, was going to be suitable for the Garda station that the Deputy is talking about. In terms of a payback on the purchase price of €1.34 million, we will have recouped the price of that site over six years.

We will have recouped much of it already at this stage.