Results 11,001-11,020 of 34,729 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: That is the first issue I wanted to raise before we our work gets under way. The second issue is also related to the Office of Public Works. The Committee of Public Accounts issued its periodic report on 23 January 2018 and one of the issues it dealt with was the reopening Garda stations. One of the recommendations of our report was that the cost implications of the review to reopen Garda...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: To clarify, the public will be confused and Mr. Buckley will have to bear with me as I try to help the public. People think the OPW manages Garda stations and so on. In some cases it does absorb the full cost of some Departments, then some of the cost of the work it does is absorbed by the line Department, as in this case, by the Department of Justice and Equality. Is there anywhere that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Is the OPW the contracting authority for this work and is it then reimbursed? Will Mr. Buckley explain how the procedure works?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The OPW is the contracting authority to carry out the work. Is the office reimbursed? How does the system work in layman's English?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Who writes the cheque for the contractor?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Buckley satisfied that the OPW can meet the June 2019 deadline to have these Garda stations opened? Has the OPW gone to tender or finalised tender documents?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Is that for Stepaside?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The OPW must have an approximate breakdown of costs for the six stations. The only reason I ask is that the committee has done a special report on this issue and I am following through on that. Does Mr. Buckley have a breakdown of the €2.5 million, approximately, between the six stations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Yes, is there an estimate of this? We are not tying Mr. Buckley to the nearest thousand euro. Does he have an idea?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I am not tying Mr. Buckley to that figure. We understand that it is only an estimate but at least we now have an approximate indication of the cost. Stepaside Garda station is the biggest cost element of the six Garda stations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I raised this because we reported on this at the beginning of the year. Mr. Buckley is the first person to give a proper response to the committee's report issued last January and I thank him for that. It is a pity somebody else did not give us that information in the meantime. It is good to have it now. At this stage I want to resume what should be our normal business for our lead speakers.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has four minutes left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: To follow up on one point, who spotted that the wrong measure was being used? The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I am looking at paragraph 6.21 of this report on page 67 and it reads as follows:In finalising the lease, the issue of the different measurement bases was considered. When reviewing the lease, the Chief State Solicitor's Office (CSSO) requested OPW to confirm with its in-house valuer whether IPMS was the appropriate standard for measurement in this case. After all of this, the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: We are in a situation where the OPW are the people looking after the State's assets, leases and property and nobody in the organisation spotted this. It took the legal people who-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Just let me finish.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The witnesses were made aware of this internally. The OPW apparently then ignored that advice and then the Chief State Solicitor's Office said there was an issue. How many people have to tell the witnesses there is a problem before they accept it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: This was after the lease was signed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The Chief State Solicitor's Office requested that the OPW check it out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: At what stage was that? Was that before the lease was signed or later on?