Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

2:15 pm

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I understand that but there is no point in building a white elephant or building something for tens of millions of euro and then to discover that the people who are insisting that this be built do not have the wherewithal to put that kind of money into fitting it out. I would have thought that kind of clarity, the cost and the longevity of running it, given that this is a charity, would have been part of a business case before one would ever enter into an arbitration because there are two sides to this. How did the OPW not argue that there was an inability to proceed with this, given everything else that was happening?