Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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From a project management perspective, I can absolutely understand what was done, but it is just not the way to manage public money. Public money must not be exposed in that way. There is a suggestion that the payment would effectively be state aid in that it was a loan to the subcontractor.