Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 December 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin

9:30 am

Mr. Jim Casey:

The reason we took longer to prepare tenders than what the Deputy outlined is that we changed the scope of work with a view to completing the project earlier than we would otherwise have done. We took some of the works out of the main contract in order to do them ahead of this next main contract. We assessed that, overall, the completion date for the works would be accelerated and we would recover some of the otherwise lost time. Just to clarify, the reason for not being able to proceed with the contract was due to hyperinflation and unusual circumstances.