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- 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: I appreciate that it is not the case; it is a case of we will never know because we only sent the OPW managing team to negotiate on one property.
- 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: I am not particularly renowned or anything; I just know some of the basics.
- 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: We are almost in 2019.
- 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: Mr. Bourke wanted some examples. I will give him a few. One is 1GQ on George's Quay in Dublin 2. The cost is €48 per square foot and includes car parking spaces. There is a break clause and one year's free rent. There is another 50,000 sq. ft unit at 1GQ and the cost includes car parking spaces. It is a 20-year lease, with a break clause after 15 years. There is 12 months' free...
- 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: We are not going to solve it now. The bottom line is that it was poor practice not to go in. Whether the OPW decided off the record, privately and internally that the Central Bank or George's Quay, for example, was not appropriate, in its brief TWM ought to have listed the five options it was looking to have. We are all human and TWM is only as good as the target set for it. What I am...
- 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: It was the client Department.
- 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: Does it have plenipotentiary status? Is it its call to say to the commissioners, "We want 100,000 sq. ft or 50,000 sq. ft and we want it on Baggot Street"? Is the OPW in a position to state, "Hold on one second, lads. How much space do you need based on 12 sq. ft per person?" On average, we are at a figure of about 16 sq. ft?
- 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 Miesian Plaza, but the figure for the Civil Service nationally is higher, is it not? We are at a figure of about 25 sq. ft or something like 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) Marc MacSharry: But it is still not where we want to get to, that is, 12 sq. ft?
- 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 Office of the Comptroller and Auditor 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: That is great. We will have to get the Comptroller and Auditor General bigger offices for the value his office is achieving, as I suggested.
- 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: Okay, but if someone comes to the OPW and says, "Hawkins House is being closed and we want 120,000 sq. ft." Is the OPW entitled to state, "Hold on a second. How many people do you have? Give us your general requirements"? Is it entitled to state, "To be honest, we have an option here for you and it will do you"?
- 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: Because of availability and the OPW might sometimes have property.
- 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: Why do they need to be beside Leinster House?
- 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: All Ministers have offices here too.
- 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: Parliamentary questions are not answered in that way. If one asks the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection a parliamentary question related to pensions, it is answered from Sligo. If one asks something to do with the Saolta hospital group, it will probably be answered from Galway. Telecommunication is instantaneous.
- 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: We will agree to disagree but just on that aspect.
- 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: Where was it reversed?
- 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 policy of decentralisation has not been reversed.
- 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 rumour around the campfire is that the OPW is going to sell Hawkins House. Is that the case?