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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I wish to go back to the correspondence from the Peter McVerry Trust and ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about the delay in filing the 2023 accounts. The letter goes into some detail about that. Would he mind giving his own opinion about the delay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: The requirement is that the accounts should be filled sooner than two years with the companies office. Is that correct, in Mr. McCarthy's experience?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Just to clarify, the Comptroller and Auditor General does not audit these accounts but they come before us on a voluntary basis. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: That is fine. I thank Mr. McCarthy.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the witnesses for being here. As a new TD, my experience here by and large is that the place is very well run. It is functioning well. When we see the range and scale of activity that takes place here on a daily basis, it is not an easy task to run that smoothly, and by and large it does. Well done to everyone involved. I thank Mr. Finnegan for his service. Our crossover has...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: So it came from Members, from a cycling group within Parliament.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Okay, fair enough. When it was decided we would approach the OPW to commence a project like this, is there a cost-benefit analysis done? Is there an estimated costing? We cannot just decide to proceed with projects without some idea of what the cost would be. I am just trying to figure out what that process is before we give the green light to a project such as the bike shelter.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Can I clarify what the estimated cost was at the outset of that project?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: You were never provided with that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: The OPW obviously has a figure but we do not know that figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: It was €336,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Okay. So effectively do not know how much it over ran.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: That in itself - I am not saying it is a commission issue, it is an OPW issue - raises alarm bells in terms of accountability and so on. Regarding future projects, are there other capital projects in the pipeline that we are engaging with the OPW on?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Is this disability access?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Do we have an estimated cost of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: That is absolutely necessary work, 100%, it is just the management of that project so that we do not see further cost over-runs and so on. Are the witnesses quite confident that the processes in place now are robust enough?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Is this still something to proceed with.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Thank you. With regard to upcoming projects, accessibility and the EU Presidency, are not going to involve any expenditure in terms of capital works, are they?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)

Séamus McGrath: There are no capital works necessary for the Houses of the Oireachtas.