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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: This is something that the OPW does.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: What did the involvement consist of in this instance? Was it architectural assistance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come back to that in a minute. I want more clarity on a time period because the OPW was engaged in this work from 2007 to 2013.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Was it a constant project over that time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Was there a gap at all? Did the OPW work from 2007 to 2008 and did work then halt for two years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the number of people involved on the OPW side. The planning applications list a total of five architects on the design team, a principal architect and three other people involved in the report done on the water.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When plans are submitted the bottom of each page shows a principal architect - which is the State architect in this instance - and a list of the design team. Is this a list of the design team or are they just people who have signed off on the plans?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I will return to that point. Ms McGrath did that work for Deputy Kevin Humphreys as he asked a number of questions previously. If I may deal briefly with the external services. Ground investigations work cost €8,066. The estimate for specialist planning advice was €5,000 as of October 2013. Is a final figure available yet?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: They do the work for the OPW.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Is this the first time the OPW has engaged external services or is it a common practice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On the JFK project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a regular practice of the OPW that such external client services are engaged for projects where the OPW is doing the design for a private entity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The final bill for external services is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the question submitted by Deputy Kevin Humphreys. He was given a reply stating one person for 58 weeks. I am trying to assess the monetary cost to the OPW. The reply to Deputy Humphrey's parliamentary question refers to procedures being in place to monitor and manage the resource input by professional services in the OPW, which includes the recording of the grade and contributed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On site somewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: That does not apply in this case under discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The reply to Deputy Humphreys's question states that where requirements arise to support initiatives or provide services outside of the strict parameters of a project time line, as occurred in this instance, the recording of the full extent of such resource inputs is not assiduously observed. I want to break down that sentence in order to understand it properly. In this instance, it was a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The reference to "support initiative or provide services outside of the strict parameters of a project time line". What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the strict parameters of a project time line. What is meant by "strict parameters"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Someone else. As occurred in this instance, the reply states that the recording of the full extent of such resource inputs is not assiduously observed. Why were they not observed? If the OPW is doing a project on someone's time lines, it is still an architect sitting at a desk who may be working on the design for a designated time.