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:

It is important to say first that the contract gives a wide range of pre-agreed unit prices for different types of works across. In relation to the Brexit works, as I said earlier, we needed to react quickly to that because of the nature of Brexit, the nature of the rules and the amount of work that had to be done there. The quickest way we could react to that was to use this contract. As it had a lot of pre-agreed prices, we felt it was an effective way of doing it and that is what we did.