Results 241-260 of 5,573 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I imagine part of the calculation was that all of these costs we are talking about are still cheaper or more cost-effective than using hotels and other forms of temporary rented accommodation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps that is the first question Members of the Thirty-fourth Dáil should ask.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I want to return to the discussion we had earlier on the bike shelter. Ms Morrison informed the committee that there was approximately €120,000 for the adjacent EV charging project? Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I apologise. I wanted to make sure I got it right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I park my car every day on perfectly good tarmac in Leinster Lawn; it does not detract from the building. Who decided that granite paving was essential?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: By the Dublin conservation team.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was one of the areas where there is a glaring waste of money when the paving was half the cost of the structure above it. I ask Ms Collier to bear with me. We then get to the groundworks. What did the groundworks entail?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was approximately €10,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: On site, it would appear that some of the groundworks we have seen carried out, are connected for EV chargers that are immediately adjoining it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Did the groundworks connect them to those EV chargers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Looking at the works, several trenches connect the EV charger points with the bike shelter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, the EV chargers is a separate project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How much was that project?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Who owns those EV chargers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Are they owned by the OPW or by the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is the charging that happens in the bike shelter connected somehow to the EV chargers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: They are separate companies - separate supplies.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Are they separate entities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I am still grappling with the €50,000 for groundworks, which is somehow a separate project from the €112,000. It is remarkable that a project that we thought was €350,000 has an adjoining project of €120,000. The real problem here is that people expect that when something happens in this building, we have some line of sight and supervision, and we know in some...