Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Very well. When the OPW is contacted by a Department, in this instance by the then Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, does it simply take the Department at its word that it does not have adequate accommodation space or does the OPW link in with it? Does the OPW try to establish whether it can save money? I have to hand many drawings and could be confused but one drawing from the Department shows an assistant secretary's office and I note assistant secretaries also have a shower room and it looks like a perfectly good ministerial office. In fact, it looks relatively similar to the ministerial office that was devised. Is there ever a conversation between the OPW and a Department on whether the latter could undertake a reshuffle of its personnel to make space within its existing structure?