Results 241-260 of 1,052,049 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Pearse Doherty)
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The cost assessment at that point was that the project could cost €397,250.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is €397,250. That is what Mr. Conlon's officials estimated this bike shed would cost at that time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We have got that. We have got the request from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission for a covered bike shelter. We have now got the cost estimated by Mr. Conlon's officials that this will cost €397,250-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What was the next step? Was there somewhere in that document which says this is value for money, this is not value for money, or this is off-your-head stuff? Was there any reference in this simple assessment, as Mr. Conlon calls it, to value for money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. There was something there, was there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What did it say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Did it address the issue of value for money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Conlon provide that document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Conlon ask one of his officials to provide that document to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, I thank Mr. Conlon. On these measured term maintenance contracts, and I will not have a chance to go through all of these costs but some of these costs I think are baffling, to tell the truth, some of these costs went to other suppliers. The big shelter, the structure as we see it, was not done by the main contractor. Somebody else did it. They came and installed it. It was the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: But it was entered into in 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Who is the contractor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group is well known in these Houses for other reasons. The owner of that company at the time of the tender was a political donor to the Minister in this Department and that became a subject of controversy earlier. These contracts and how they are operated are supposed to be for routine maintenance services and all the rest. Is it not the case that the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is what we expect from those contracts and it makes sense for that, but we are talking about a €400,000 bike shed or, as the Comptroller and Auditor General said before, the OPW offering contracts of €2.5 million euros under these contracts, which is not allowed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Up to €1 million. Before that it used to be half a million and the OPW were offering contracts of €2.5 million. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It talks about the value of the contract being €3 million per annum whereas the total amount ended up being €40 million, which is €10 million per annum or three times more. If a local group in my constituency in Donegal wants to buy a lawnmower to cut the grass out in front of a housing estate, it has to get three tenders. The OPW does not have to do that at all for a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this. We are talking about the back of Leinster House and the bike shed. That is an absolute waste of taxpayers' money. Was it the OPW that built the siopa at the front of Leinster House?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The glass structure at the front of Leinster House.