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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Sorry, it is HR, payroll, pensions and banking; the first four areas of shared service. The office of the future is the open plan office as one would see in any private sector entity. To do that, new buildings are needed and we need to move away from the obsession that some people have with cellular offices. Including Deputies, it might be a good idea if we all worked in a shared environment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: And very junior Ministers of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: If one is part of a group it helps. Group think really helps people to get the best out of their performance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: If one is on one's own one should get a cellular office. I have no difficulty with that. Maybe we would give the Deputy an old Garda station. The position about Garda stations is that 39 have been closed and come within our remit and we have to deal with that issue. I very much want community proposals as to how those facilities can be used. I have given the example of Finglas Garda...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: I have no difficulty providing that information to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: I do. The OPW uses approximately 2,200 properties. It owns 60% of them and leases 40% of them, roughly speaking. Obviously, the owned estate is the great asset we have. We are engaged in intensive negotiations regarding the 40% of properties that are leased. We have absolutely no difficulty providing further information to the Deputy and the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: It is the unitary charge for the national convention centre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: In fairness to my predecessor, reductions were made before the election. The collapse happened in 2008.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: It is 1.4%, or €6.5 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Is the Deputy asking about what has been lost on the capital side?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Does the Deputy want a three month advance window?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: I thank Deputy Donnelly for his kind remarks about my colleagues in the OPW. I can state bluntly that the radical reductions occurred in recent years. The organisation is at its lowest point in terms of numbers for a very long time. People are having to do things differently. I will give an example. The OPW provides architectural help and support to the Department of Education and Skills...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Let me help the Deputy. If what he states is true and his figures are correct, he is right in pointing to an appalling vista. Deputy Fleming's figures are wrong and this arises from a fundamental misunderstanding as to the what the figures represent. When he read out the figures on capital for 2008, the Deputy made the assumption that this was money that was spent in the Office of Public...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: The great majority of that capital works was contracted out. To extrapolate to a unitary cost where one can divide the capital budget by the number of people in the office is what may be described as "Voodoo economics".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Does the Deputy accept his assumption is wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: That is a misunderstanding of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: I hope to bring it under €100 million in 2015.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: Once again Chairman, this is a misunderstanding. The 320,00 staff figures to which my good friend, Deputy Fleming referred, are the totality of numbers in the public sector. We only pay the rent bill for the civil servants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)
Brian Hayes: It all depends on when one takes a lease. One may have taken a lease on a property for ten or 20 years, and that still stands irrespective of the state of the economy. I have figures that show the actual average cost of what we have negotiated against the market price. Let me illustrate this point. The average cost per square metre that we have negotiated is €409. The market...