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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It states: A significant level of works is required to bring the site up to standard. The average cost per unit of developing sites, including connectivity to services - gas, water and communications - and extensive remediation works on suboptimal sites available is in the region of €150,000. I fail to grasp how I have €442,000, and if I subtract €150,000 for the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will move on because it does not sound like Mr. Conlon is going to give me an answer. It is entirely unsatisfactory that he said that a unit is €150,000, which is the top end figure, and I am missing €150,000 in his calculations. I will move on. In terms of delivering value for money, Mr. Conlon said the cost is approximately €150,000 for 45 sq. m, which according...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I had a look at HUF Haus, the German company that does really fancy, Dermot Bannon-type houses, costs €2,000 to €2,500 per sq. m. Shomera is another, although I am not necessarily comparing like for like but, including installation and construction on-site, the cost is €2,081 per sq. m. HUF Haus produces top-of-the-range units. Mr. Conlon is saying we are paying 150%...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Had the OPW gone to Shomera, it would have cost €2,081 per sq. m.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am flabbergasted by those answers. I had a number of issues to go into by way of contractors' lists but the Chair was very good to let me in when I arrived late.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not propose to spend much more time on the bike shelter. I want to ask about the siopa at the front of Leinster House. Anybody who does cycle to this campus - and I was one of the signatories to that letter - knows the vast preponderance of the bikes arrive in through Kildare Street, not through the Merrion side, where the bike shelter is. Is there a plan for what is going to happen...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is the outside of it as opposed to the inside.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This may seem a facetious question, but I do not intend it facetiously. Did anybody look at the siopa for the provision of bike parking? When the OPW set about a project to say, "We need to build some bike parking", did anybody at any stage say, "The siopa has been chronically underutilised?" Was it factored in anywhere? No. Okay. It would-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: To me, it seems as obvious as the nose on my face, but there we go. Another thing that is as obvious as the nose on my face is climate change and sea level rise. What sea level rise is the OPW factoring into its forward planning?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What is the date on that, may I ask Mr. Mooney?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: But Mr. Mooney is saying 2100. Is that the kind of timeframe within which the OPW is predicting these scenarios?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think most evidence would point towards around a metre by 2100. The witnesses can probably guess my next question. The last major coastal change study the OPW has done does not factor that in. Professor Peter Thorne, in a report from Caroline O'Doherty, said what we were announcing was "a plan to make a plan" in terms of dealing with coastal erosion. Our coastal erosion study does not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The OPW is looking at Inishowen and my part of the world, Tramore.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Sorry. I have a couple of questions on the contractors list in relation to a parliamentary question to which I received the answer yesterday. I refer to the contractors list and the criteria the OPW has set out where contractors are removed, including if they do not match the criteria in the application form. Reference is made to an application form including details such as insurance,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: May I ask finally, were any contractors removed from the contractor list due to non-compliant procurement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (22 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Apologies have been received from the Chair, Deputy Paul Kehoe. We will go briefly into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the following representatives from the USI: Mr. Chris Clifford, national president; Mr. Bryan O'Mahony, deputy president and vice president, academic affairs; Ms Emma Monahan, vice...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Financial Supports for Tertiary Level Students: Discussion (22 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to put a couple of questions, especially about students' working, which is something I am coming across more and more. When students are in college they should be in full-time education and focused on getting their degree or qualification but they are working one, two and three jobs in order to try to make ends meet. That is having a pretty severe impact on their education. Could I...