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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Does the office have a property professional on its staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It might be worth-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Does Mr. McCarthy not think €100 million in a rent roll would be enough?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: A quantity survey is for building. I am thinking of the values side, that is, value on property management. Quantity surveying involves how many tiles one needs and how much they would cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Architecture is design-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----and one of the flaws with the OPW, if you ask me, is the lack of property management. It is something Mr. McCarthy should look at because I am sure when it came to writing the report we are about to consider in a few minutes it might have helped in a level of understanding. It is not a criticism of Mr. McCarthy because he brought this good work to us, but I also understand-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not saying the office does not need that, in fairness. It is not a case of either-or. I am suggesting, given the amount of money involved, the potential for deals like this and the fact that the OPW pays €96 million in rent every year and that there are property disposals and acquisitions, it would be prudent to have a small team of property professionals at Mr. McCarthy's...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am making a recommendation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I suggest that on that day, perhaps separately, we invite one of the big five or six valuation houses to send a representative. It does not necessarily have to be Savills; it could be Colliers or DTZ, or whatever it is called. It could give us an insight into some useful information.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There is a lot of tweeting going on about me from a previous witness and I look forward to hearing a defence from all of the members.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I concur with that proposal. It was on my list of issues that this gentleman would be brought in.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: This helps the Chair. On paragraph 6.21 of the report that has been given to us it states that the OPW then sought advice of the internal chartered surveyor who advised that it needed to be recalibrated. Internal people did advise the witnesses but they just did not act on that advice, is that correct?
- 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) Marc MacSharry: In fairness, we have it in writing. This is what I tried to say to Mr. Buckley. We have it in writing that, in February 2017, one of his own people advised him. That is what we have in writing. Is that the case or not? That is the question. The Chief State Solicitor's Office acted. The reason we are here today is that, in February 2017, Mr. Buckley was advised by one of his own people...
- 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) Marc MacSharry: With respect, I do not think Mr. Buckley has explained it. We have been half an hour talking about how Larry Goodman did up the building before he offered it to the OPW. We know that. Let us get underneath that. Mr. Buckley has said he is not a property expert and that his colleagues are.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: The most recent speaker took 25 minutes, as opposed to ten. I thank the witnesses for coming. My questioning is sometimes provocative.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: The clock up there must be wrong.
- 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) Marc MacSharry: The Chairman is eating in to my time. Sometimes my questioning is provocative. It is nothing personal. We are all doing a job. I respect the witnesses have a job to do and I also have a job to do. Sometimes it might appear unnecessarily adversarial; please do not read anything into it. The structure of the OPW is that there are three commissioners and Mr. Buckley is the chairman,...
- 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) Marc MacSharry: In the Houses of the Oireachtas, we are used to phrases like assistant secretary, Secretary General and principal officer. To try and give us an analogy we might understand, how are people graded?
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Are the three commissioners at Secretary General level? Is the chairman the equivalent of Secretary General?
- 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) Marc MacSharry: Is everyone else the equivalent of assistant secretary?