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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I welcome the witnesses. I want to follow up on some of the questions on the national children's science centre. What has happened with that project is a scandal in many regards. It is up there with the MetroLink and the national children's hospital. After 26 years and millions of euro spent, we have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than arbitration and legal expenses. There are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Mr. Conlon made reference earlier to getting sight of a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. Mr. Conlon also said that, so far, there is an exposure of approximately €1.5 million to the OPW.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Does that figure include legal expenditure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Regarding the exposure from the arbitration, how much has been set aside to cover legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Mr. Conlon has no indication of the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: It will be extremely costly. Is there no provision put aside to cover legal costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: We are looking at €1.5 million plus legal costs before a sod has been turned. I have information to hand suggesting that Irish Children's Museum Limited, ICML, which is centrally involved in this project, has had access to considerable State funding, grants, etc. to get to this point, from numerous Departments. The information I have is that it has received in and around €5...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I will ask that question of her.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. No business case whatsoever.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: That is with probably several million in expenditure. That is extraordinary in anyone's estimation. I move to site identification, the whole process around that and the public consultation piece, or lack thereof, around identifying the site. How was the site identified in the first instance? What involvement did the OPW have in that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay, and what about public consultation around that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Possibly because it is a public space and would be handed over to a private entity to operate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I want to ask about the whole arbitration process and the terms of reference. Can they be made available to this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: The legal advice around the arbitration process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Can those be made available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Revert to us on that. Why were there two separate arbitration processes?