Results 221-240 of 1,051,433 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:David Cullinane) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: We find it very difficult to understand as well. What else of substantial value has the OPW constructed within Leinster House or the Department of Finance area, here on Merrion Street or Kildare Street, in the last 12 months or so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Yes, please. I refer to projects of significant cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Sorry to interrupt, but has the OPW constructed any other structure of significant cost within Leinster House or the Department of Finance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: There is a security shelter beside the Department of Finance buildings. Was that an OPW project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Was it an OPW project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: That is quite a significant high-cost project, I believe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: I was talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: -----Kildare Street, Merrion Street and the compound of buildings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: It is a very attractive security hut with a sweeping copper-clad roof. It looks very well. What was the cost of the project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: I am quite tight on time and I want to find out the cost of the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: It was €1.429 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: There was a huge security element but there is huge price tag attached.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Was that open to the two contractors Mr. Conlon mentioned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: That was an open tender because it exceeded the MTMC.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Who was the contractor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Who signs off on something at that level of cost? Does that need to go to ministerial level to sign off on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Assistant secretary within the Department of Finance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: We have a bicycle shelter for €336,000 and a security hut for €1.4 million. I take the point that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: I know they are two completely different projects, but does that seem like an excessive price? I accept there is a security element to it and the controls involved there. It is a beautiful structure. Is it excessive for the function it performs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Steven Matthews: Notwithstanding the security considerations of that, is Mr. Conlon in a position to provide us with a breakdown of the costs of that? I do not mind if he has to remove the sensitive security nature of it, but I am interested to see if it was value for money. We are picking holes in the costs of this bike shelter. A total of €50,000 was paid for granite landscaping and I do not think...