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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not a brilliant ad for it, is it? In terms of the order of magnitude costing, it was a hell of a magnitude, was it not? The order of magnitude costing was carried out by this individual at the grade of principal officer or equivalent and at no stage was any more senior person notified about that, am I right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: This individual obviously felt empowered by senior managers to act. I do not want to personalise it to an individual, but whoever the person was at the level of principal officer felt very comfortable in signing off a project of this size without any recourse to senior managers? As regards making sure that will not happen again, the OPW has put some limit in place. It is still a hefty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: So the Minister of State was content when Mr. Conlon met with him that the actions he was taking were sufficient. He was not asked to undertake any additional actions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: With regard to the role of the quantity surveyor, my colleague asked some questions in this regard, but I am a wee bit confused. Who pays the QS's wages? Are they paid by Sensori?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay, so the QS works for the OPW on contract. The QS is not an employee of the OPW directly. It is a contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the OPW have any QSs on staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Now I am confused. The OPW has QSs on staff but it also contracts in QSs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: What are the QSs who are staff doing while the contractors are in doing the work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the OPW need additional QS staff, perhaps?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Conlon might call it flexibility. There might be other-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Thank you, Chair. The order of magnitude costing that was done did not contain within it the €11,000 that was needed to ensure the bike shed could be safe during the winter. Why was a kind of bike shed for all seasons not built, or how did the OPW end up getting surprised or stung with a bill for €11,000 at the end? Surely the specification would have been to build a bike...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: So the contract was not to create a bike shed that was fit for purpose, albeit massively expensive. It was to create one that was not and then had to be adjusted at the end. I am just wondering. This seems like a very good deal for the contractor at the end. Mr. Conlon was at pains to point out how detailed the plan was and the order of magnitude costing and all that stuff that went along...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: As I said, a very good deal for the contractor, it looks like.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Visit of Chinese Delegation (25 Sep 2024)

Visit of Chinese Delegation (25 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome guests to our Public Gallery. I wish a céad míle fáilte to Yuan Shuhong, vice chair of the Constitution and Law Committee of the 14th National People's Congress and his committee members, who are meeting the justice committee as part of their visit to Ireland. A céad míle fáilte and I hope they enjoy their visit.

Visit of Chinese Delegation (25 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome our distinguished guests as well. It is a great honour to have you all here.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Part 2 of the Bill provides for the duty to share and contains sections 7 to 9, inclusive. Section 7 places a statutory duty on health service providers to share personal health data with other health services providers for the purposes of patient care and treatment. In keeping with data protection principles, such sharing must be necessary, relevant and proportionate. Section 8 introduces...