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

John McGuinness: When Mr. Conlon says she was there, was she at the commission?

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

John McGuinness: The full commission membership was fully briefed by the OPW. They made the decision to go ahead with this and then the OPW was instructed from there.

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

John McGuinness: No, I am sticking with the commission here. This whole debacle started somewhere. It started with a request to provide a bicycle shelter. It resulted in the OPW coming to the commission and making a number of submissions and a final submission. That is the full commission. I will not name them but they are senior people in these Houses who perhaps should have known better with regard to...

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

John McGuinness: Ms Collier does not have to change my words. It gave the OPW permission and approved. It is all the same.

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...

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

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Conlon. I propose to take the issue of the cost of the bicycle shelter as the first topic. We can then deal with the other matters with the agreement of members. The clerk to the committee has listed Deputies Doherty, Tóibín, Matthews, Conway-Walsh, MacSharry, Senator Sherlock, and Deputies Durkan and Boyd Barrett in that order. Before I call Deputy Doherty, will Mr....

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

John McGuinness: I am told then that there is a steering group encompassing representatives from both executives. It meets monthly and oversees the implementation of both the standard maintenance and the capital works programme, as well as the commission. Did the OPW meet it separately?

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

John McGuinness: Between the executives. I do not know who is on that working group. Can Ms Collier give us the names of the people?

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

John McGuinness: The commission, with public representatives on it, made the decision and then a non-elected group, albeit a well-qualified group with engineers and God knows what, looks at the scope and the delivery. There is no politician there.

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

John McGuinness: Yes, but this working group is well qualified. They are looking at the progress of this and other projects I am sure. Is that correct?

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

John McGuinness: Yes, that is fine. The PO in the OPW signed off on it. He must have felt quite comfortable signing off on it because all of these very professional eyes were over this project once a month. Is that right?

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

John McGuinness: Yes, but this is a big project; it was €380,000 or whatever it was. Those professionals, you could take it, gave comfort by the fact that they were just there, to the principal officer with regard to the signing off. He knew there were other people who looked at it.

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

John McGuinness: He had the commission, made up of very senior people. He had this working group that was made up of really professional people who knew their stuff and were meeting once a month. Presumably, when he got the costings, he said, "Well, you know, it seems to be okay". All of these people are above his pay grade so he would make certain presumptions from that. Anyway, the project then went...

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

John McGuinness: Mr. Conlon is not happy. Let us not mince words here. He is not happy with that process.