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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: In other words, we outsourced the tendering of the taxpayers' money for this. Not only was our own oversight of potential waste internally very poor in this situation, but we actually gave it to someone else to tender and for taxpayers' money to be spent in this scenario.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Does Mr. Conlon think it is a good idea to put tendering at arms' length in the future with regard to these costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: How do we know it is done competitively if we are not doing it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Is the quantity surveyor working for Sensori or the OPW?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: For who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Is the surveyor an employee of the OPW then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: So we also outsource the quantity surveyor in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: This is incredible that we are outsourcing oversight to these Government projects in those terms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Everybody would expect that we get a bicycle shed for a reasonable price. That has not happened clearly. So the expectations here are blown out of the water, in fairness, Mr. Conlan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: It is important that the OPW has an internal oversight where people are employed directly in relation to this. Two suppliers were invited to quote for the Wicklow granite paving, for example. That was not tendered by the OPW. It was tendered by an outside company. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: We walked over the area of the granite and I think it is 60 sq. m. From the figures that we see here that works out as €800 per sq. m and yet if you go online you can see Wicklow granite paving for about €200 per sq. m. My point is that we need to have internal checks and balances in relation to external contractors who, in fairness to them, are profit-generating organisations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Can we have the quantity of works as well? When the OPW says that it has spent €121,000 on steel, if we are not given the quantity then how can we work out the exact cost per unit? Again, I feel the information we have been given here is not detailed enough for us to properly analyse it and I do not think that is by accident.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Conlon said he spoke to the Minister before the delivery of these notes to the committee. Which Minister was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Did Mr. Conlon speak with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, regarding any of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: No Minister signed off on the €1.5 million security hut. What is the size of that building in square metres? It looks like the size of a large mobile home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: We may find that out as well. It has been reported that vehicles, trucks especially, are having difficulty getting in and out of that space due to the size of the building, especially its roof. Has Mr. Conlon heard reports of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Would it be possible to get a list of the contracts that have been entered into by the OPW through the measured term maintenance contract so far? Is there a breakdown of all of the projects that were commenced, their value and what company received them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Let us look at projects with a cost greater than €250,000. That is roughly the new bar being placed in terms of the decision-making process by the principal officer. Ken Foxe broke this story, and a number of journalists have sought information through freedom of information, FOI, and they have told us their FOIs are being blocked. They are not even getting an acknowledgement in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I understand that the former Chairman of the OPW went to study in Paris just the year before he retired. The taxpayer footed a bill of €35,000 for that. I welcome State investment in the education of staff, but it seems strange that such an investment would be made just before a person retires. Was that good value for money for the taxpayer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Did he sign off on it himself?