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Architects draw down €1m council payments

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ARCHITECTURAL firms received significant Clare County Council payments to consultants last year.

The council paid such firms over €1m of the €4.9m which consultants received.

Yelland Architects Ltd received €213,400 which was the highest amount paid, according to figures which the council released in re-

sponse to a freedom of information request.

Murray O’Laoire Architects Ltd received €213,233, Byrne O’ Donnell Scully Architects received €142,924; Henry J Lyons and Partners received €89,190, Dermot and Sean Merry re- ceived €70,877 and Paddy Coleman and Associates received €44,955. All payments are inclusive of 21 per cent VAT.

Payments to architectural firms

would primarily relate to firms de- signing council housing schemes and reflects the upsurge in council house eluunCeuberee

The company that designed the award-winning Cliffs of Moher visitor centre, Cork-based Reddy O’ Riordan, Staehli was paid €63,779.

Regarding other payments to con- sultants Brendan McGrath and Asso- ciates received €42,580, PH McCa- rthy and Partners received €29,249,

Michael Leahy and Paul Conway received €26,961, while Brady Ship- man Martin received €12,298.

A number of engineering firms also received substantial council pay- ments. RPS MCOS Ltd, which car- ries out work at the local authority’s central landfill at Inagh, received €581,936. White Young Green (Irl) Ltd received €284,283, while Nicholas O’Dwyer and Partner re- ceived €241,325. John B Barry and

Partners received €192,557, while Mott McDonald Petit Ltd received € 147,179.

Farm Business Advisers Ltd re- ceived €284,283. Patrick J Tobin & Co Ltd received €138,556 while Er1- naceous Consult Services (Ire) Ltd received €134,394.

The council insists that the pay- ments are subject to various internal and external council and Department of Environment controls.

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