Pineapple Building

In announcing the renaming of the building this afternoon, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said it was the Government's decision to honour Sir Manasupe Zurenuoc and name it after him.

Sir Manasupe will be retiring next month and has been serving the public service for more than 30 years.

The building was also officially handed over to the Government by Oil Search this afternoon.

It spends more than K200 million to rent office space annually.

This will now be a thing of the past, thanks to the Oil Search tax credit scheme.

In 2013, the Government appointed Oil Search as project manager for the refurbishment of Marea House that had fallen derelict.

The project was a flagship job for the National Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme.

Oil Search will hand over Marea House to the Department of the Prime Minister and NEC in preparation in time for the first NEC meeting in March.