Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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There is one other piece of consultancy work. The Deputy will be aware that the Government asked us to lead on the property management aspect of the public sector reform plan and we launched our proposals last July. It is under the auspices of the OPW. As I mentioned, we are carrying out a review of capacity within the OPW. We will have the report shortly and it will obviously fall part of this year's Estimate. The review is being undertaken by an outside group which is looking at the organisation to identify whether we have all the necessary staff in place to achieve a whole-of-government approach to property management. It is a big undertaking. From the savings I have identified, we can see the big potential benefit. As I stated, this is the second biggest cost outside pay and pensions and we must get it right. The total cost of that piece of work will be over €100,000.