Results 341-360 of 1,036,338 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Catherine Murphy) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: In 2013 it might have been Fianna Fáil.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I am sorry, it was.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I want to come back to a couple of issues. First, it is my understanding that the OPW will build the children's science facility, the charity will then fit it out and it will then be handed back to the OPW to run. Is my understanding of that wrong or right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Will ICML cover the entire cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Surely that is an issue that needs to be teased out because it does not have the funding to run it. Now that there is competition with another facility 11 miles away there is surely an alteration to a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: To be honest with Mr. Conlon, I am still struggling to get my head around how a charitable organisation can have its foot on the throat of the State for something like this. I wish the people in my area were as powerful as this charitable group when it comes to the Castletown House lands where €25 million has been put into a wonderful facility that people cannot access now. I find it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was it an individual or the head of the OPW?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Right. Did they get authority from the Department at that stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: This was the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at the time that would have given the authority. If I remember, back in 2013 the troika was here and we were losing public services hand over fist. Reform was the code word for cuts, yet here is a financial commitment being made for something without a business case.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: For God's sake. I really question the power of the State when it comes to the power of a charitable organisation. I just find that head-wrecking. Will it be the OPW that gets the business case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Who will it go to?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: We already cannot establish which Department is going to be the funding Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: I can see it being a case of pass-the-parcel here. We will hear: "It is not mine; it is the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science". If we go to that Department, it will say it is nothing to do with it. I can see it will be a case of pass-the-parcel. There must be some combination of Departments involved here. As Mr. O'Connor says, there is work to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: In relation to the Iveagh Gardens.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Right, okay. Will it be out of commission if this happens? The charity is announcing that this is going to be in place by 2028. Does Mr. O'Connor think that is optimistic?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is the arbitrator likely to look at the business case given that there is now a very similar – I fully accept that it is not identical – project that would compete with it in terms of the Explorium in Sandyford?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: This is not Monopoly money. It is just very hard to get my head around it. I want to move on to discuss rapid build. I had a look at the definition of "rapid" and it does not sound like it matches what I am seeing in terms of the timescale for these. I want to raise the longevity of the buildings. I am most familiar with the development at Backweston. It is a sizeable site. There is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is it a case of looking for retention?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: But the OPW did not go through a Part 8 process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Catherine Murphy: But what would not have happened is that it would not have been considered in the context of zoned land or looking for other services to go with it, like schools, school places, and the other community facilities.