Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Let me deal with this. A total of 1,090 were assigned to headquarters and needed to be moved. The Minister of State said the OPW built in a contingency of 20% which means it should build for about 1,300, yet it built for 880. That is why 500 gardaí are without a place in Military Road. It is not rocket science.