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:

I would make it very clear that this contract provides us with a quick and efficient response to doing many projects up to a value of €1 million.

We have done approximately 161 projects in the past three years since the contract started for small-scale works, at an average cost of €136,000. We have done over 2,800 planned maintenance projects under this contract for an average cost of €5,800. We have done almost 8,500 works calls on small-scale reactive cases, which I spoke about initially, at an average cost of €280. It provides us flexibility to do a lot of small, planned and minor-scale works.