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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The housing assistance payment scheme is administered through the local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: As well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Fine. Thank you, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will have questions.

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)

Catherine Connolly: We have got used to that.

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)

Catherine Connolly: There is confusion and there should not be any confusion. Is there one report or two reports? Will Mr. Buckley clarify that for the committee? As Deputy Kelly stated, there are later dates and earlier dates. What I read in the letter was that a detailed surveyor's report was submitted to the OPW in November 2017 and forwarded by the OPW to the Comptroller and Auditor General in mid-2018....

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)

Catherine Connolly: We have limited time. We should have all of the relevant reports in order that we can ask relevant questions on value for money. There should be a list of them. To refer the previous Committee of Public Accounts committee is of little use to us because we were not members of that committee. We require a practical list of what reports have been done on various issues that will help us to...

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)

Catherine Connolly: I am as anxious as anyone else to move on. I attempted to get a copy of the report through the secretariat. It predates our access to records. Can we have a clear summary or list of the relevant reports that have been done, rather than having members trying to find out which report is which and reading through correspondence and submissions. We need a list with bullet points of the...

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)

Catherine Connolly: We should have copies of the reports as well as the letters.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, but it was presented in 2017. Rather than trying to tease out if there is more than one report, can we have copies of all of the reports? Is that too much to ask?

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)

Catherine Connolly: On a general point, this did not happen in the last few days. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General includes a chapter on the specific issue of Miesian Plaza. The report should be with us. This letter that we presumably all received was sent to the Office of Public Works for comment following our previous meeting. There is a report, there are letters and there is the Office of...

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)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Buckley.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Indirectly, they are related.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Cuireann an easpa ban iontas orm i gcónaí.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Níl a fhios agam an cheart "go raibh maith agat" a rá mar fhreagra ar an easpa ban, ach is rud eile é sin. I am looking at the spending review from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is a very good overview. I am not too sure about the conclusions. I wish I was here looking at the OPW in respect of the very important work it carries out. It looks after...

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)

Catherine Connolly: No, recalibrated in terms of the new measurements. I will go to paragraph 21. It is not the way Mr. Buckley is telling it; it was actually brought to his attention. If we look at paragraph 6.21, we can see that it was clearly brought to Mr. Buckley's attention. Paragraph 6.21 states that "in finalising the lease, the issue of the different measurement bases was considered." It states...

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)

Catherine Connolly: The OPW failed to do that.

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)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Buckley has said that openly. Second, there is no confusion here with regard to extra space or the office being extended. No office was extended. It was the exact same building. It involved a different type of measurement but the overall area was the same.

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)

Catherine Connolly: And the overall area was the same. It just involved a recalibration of how to do it per square metre or square foot. That is all. There was no extra space. It was about whether the pillars were included or things like that. Is that not right?