Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Conlan is very welcome and I congratulate him on his appointment last April. I thank him and his staff for attending.

The OPW does some very fine work in this country, throughout all of our counties, constituencies and not least in this fine building we find ourselves sitting in. I also acknowledge the tremendous assistance Mr. Ciarán O'Connor has been to us on the Joint Committee on the Housing, Local Government and Heritage on a lot of the work the OPW is doing. It is important to acknowledge that work. When an organisation is in the spotlight, which quite rightly the OPW is because of the excessive costs of this bike shelter, that can have a detrimental impact on many of the staff across the country who work for the OPW and it can be demoralising for them.