Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the question submitted by Deputy Kevin Humphreys. He was given a reply stating one person for 58 weeks. I am trying to assess the monetary cost to the OPW. The reply to Deputy Humphrey's parliamentary question refers to procedures being in place to monitor and manage the resource input by professional services in the OPW, which includes the recording of the grade and contributed hours of all professional staff employed on the project. The reply states that these records inform OPW management on the efficient use of and deployment of its resources. What this tells me is that the OPW architects and design team are clocking their working hours so the OPW can see how they are spending their time, similar to how records are kept in an accountancy or legal firm. That is the practice in the OPW.