Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We have seen it with other ETBs. I drew attention to, I think, two cases in County Cork and another ETB similarly where, in the course of construction, a contractor runs into difficulty, the project may have to stop and very quickly the building deteriorates because it is not in use, is not heated and there is no security around it. It may even be security from things like wind and rain and so on. A building will deteriorate very quickly. Then, to remobilise and get somebody else in, they are fixing problems from the previous contractor but also dealing with vandalism and tearing stuff out to rebuild.