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. Maurice Buckley:

I might bring in my colleague the commissioner, Mr. McMahon, on that. We are certainly confident that the works were very good value, particularly when the contract was procured in 2014, just coming out of the recession. In the following years, one of the concerns we had was that construction inflation was going at 100 mph, but we at least had-----