Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission
2:00 am
Mr. Peter Finnegan:
Correct. At the time of the bike shed, the responsibility for doing the cost-benefit analysis was with the OPW because it was not commission money that was being spent on the bike shed. As I said earlier, we do not have the authority to do capital works in here and the report that was commissioned identified there were shortcomings in the value-for-money and cost-benefit analysis on the OPW side. Going forward, as I alluded to earlier, we now have our formal structure in place. That will check the OPW cost-benefit analysis piece and we will make absolutely sure everything checks out before it goes to the commission.