Results 261-280 of 36,355 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: The point is it is taxpayers' money. Nobody is in that building and we are renting it for €12 million.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: I will just ask another question and I asked it of the senior Minister already. It concerns the residential properties in the Phoenix Park. It was reported in the Irish Daily Mail and we flagged the issue to the Minister of State, so I am sure he is familiar with it. Will he explain how much rent is charged on each of those houses?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: I am sorry for interrupting, but I am pushed for time. The question is on how much rent is being charged on those houses and what the process is for handing out OPW houses.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: I am going to ask all my questions together because I am under pressure for time. How much rent is generated by the houses, either individually or taking the seven combined? What is the process for handing out OPW houses to public sector workers and how many OPW residential properties are being let out for residential use?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: It is a differential rent. Is it like a council house rent?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: This is the Estimates process. Can the Minister of State tell us the rent being paid on the seven houses combined? Is that information available to the public?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State provide the committee with the documentation that shows how these houses are rented and how the rents are calculated, please? Is that possible?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: Are these the only residential houses that the OPW rents out?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: Yes, I appreciate that.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025) Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: We will get a chance to talk about some of the projects in Donegal at a later stage. I invited the Minister of State to the county and I look forward to his visit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: We are ready to treat you and wine and dine you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: As long as the Minister of State takes the chequebook for all the projects, we will be happy. There are a couple of dates we do not want him to come down to us. We have the all-Ireland semi-final coming up and the final as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: All other dates are free. The OPW has been involved in huge controversy pertaining to wasting public money, with the bike shed, the security hut and properties that have been rented and are still vacant. Are there any other issues or concerns around value for money within the OPW that the Minister of State or his officials are aware of and which we in this committee are not aware of at this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The GPO is to be transferred to the OPW. Does the Minister of State know if that transfer has taken place at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Has the transfer to the OPW happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: So, it has not been gone through at the minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: We heard from the Taoiseach that the site would be a mixed-use museum comprised of open space for office and commercial. In the Minister of State's understanding, is that space for use as State offices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: No private offices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Have private offices been ruled out completely?