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

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Okay, I thank Mr. Conlon. On these measured term maintenance contracts, and I will not have a chance to go through all of these costs but some of these costs I think are baffling, to tell the truth, some of these costs went to other suppliers. The big shelter, the structure as we see it, was not done by the main contractor. Somebody else did it. They came and installed it. It was the same way with the granite landscaping. This company provided the granite landscaping and installed it. The contractor then gets all of the other bits and pieces - the landscaping, the ducting, the power and the day works, which we can come back to. This all emerges from these measured term maintenance contracts. This contract was entered into with the supplier in November 2021 and became operational in 2022.