Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Engagement with Office of Public Works

1:30 pm

Mr. John Conlon:

The first thing I would have done was to make sure the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission was advised of it, and to take its input first. That is an important lesson to learn from this. It is a failure I have acknowledged in my opening statement. It should have happened and there should have been some judgment check on the costs at that stage. I fully accept that.