Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 5 - Development of a Proposed National Science Centre
Chapter 6 - The OPW's Management of Office Accommodation
2:00 am
Mr. John Conlon:
We have had the Bishop's Square building for quite a number of years and it has been occupied by a number of Civil Service Departments, including Revenue, the Department of Social Protection and the Department of justice. Over the years, people have moved in and out. With that building, there were landlord changes that did not help in our progression of the fit-out, which took some time to resolve. That was also delayed over the period to 2022 by supply chain issues and the Covid pandemic - something we found hard to control, to be very frank.