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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Mr. Conlon said, "had regard to the processes and procedures." He is now asking for an independent auditor to pass judgment on whether the appropriate processes and procedures were followed. In his view, did they just have regard to them, or did they follow them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What does that mean? I do not want to split hairs, but I do not understand. Will he answer my question? Did they follow the procedures or not? The question he is asking the independent auditor, which more taxpayers' money is being spent on to find out how this went wrong, is if the appropriate processes and procedures were followed. I am asking Mr. Conlon. He has reviewed all of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, that is just basically telling people what OPW is doing, the upfront part of it. We would expect that if the OPW were to tell the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission that it was planning to build a bike shed for €336,000 - I will come to that number again because the OPW actually expected it to cost a good deal more than that - the commission would ask those in the OPW if they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Mr. Conlon also said in his opening statement that the value for money aspect should have been more front and centre. I am asking whether it was on the page at all. This is the review. I expected something completely different from Mr. Conlon in the review. I want the documentation. This will either be through a freedom of information request or Mr. Conlon will give all of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Conlon explain that to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The cost assessment at that point was that the project could cost €397,250.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is €397,250. That is what Mr. Conlon's officials estimated this bike shed would cost at that time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We have got that. We have got the request from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission for a covered bike shelter. We have now got the cost estimated by Mr. Conlon's officials that this will cost €397,250-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What was the next step? Was there somewhere in that document which says this is value for money, this is not value for money, or this is off-your-head stuff? Was there any reference in this simple assessment, as Mr. Conlon calls it, to value for money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. There was something there, was there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What did it say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Did it address the issue of value for money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Conlon provide that document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Conlon ask one of his officials to provide that document to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, I thank Mr. Conlon. On these measured term maintenance contracts, and I will not have a chance to go through all of these costs but some of these costs I think are baffling, to tell the truth, some of these costs went to other suppliers. The big shelter, the structure as we see it, was not done by the main contractor. Somebody else did it. They came and installed it. It was the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: But it was entered into in 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Who is the contractor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group is well known in these Houses for other reasons. The owner of that company at the time of the tender was a political donor to the Minister in this Department and that became a subject of controversy earlier. These contracts and how they are operated are supposed to be for routine maintenance services and all the rest. Is it not the case that the Comptroller and Auditor...