Results 341-360 of 1,038,808 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:Brian Stanley) 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) Brian Stanley: What are we talking about? Is it €20 million, €30 million or €40 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: In the region of €70 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Is it correct that a business case has not come across, even to officials?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: I will come back to the promoters in a moment. How much has been spent on this project so far?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Some €1.5 million has been spent already.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: I am curious about this legal obligation. The centre is to be situated at the National Concert Hall. It will be run by a private company. Meanwhile, in the intervening 24 or 26 years, another one has been built. I am curious about the nature of this legal obligation. Will the witnesses please explain how that happened and the nature of what was involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: I remember that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: What of the legal obligation? Can we cut to the chase on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Step back for a second. There is a missing piece here. With whom was the legal obligation entered into? Is it the OPW or the other group?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: I am sorry about my ignorance in respect of this matter. Will Mr. O'Connor outline exactly who was involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Is it a public body?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: It is a group of private individuals and the State has entered into a binding agreement with them. We have found that it could cost in the region €70 million and that, 24 years later, there is no business plan on this with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Was planning permission not granted first in 2009? The OPW went on to procure technical consultants to prepare a tender contract with a view to preparing a request for tender in the latter part of 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: So it was not actually a new build. It is a conversion of the existing site.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: How much?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: Was it not a very onerous agreement with a voluntary group?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: I understand that other people will have contributed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: What is the current status of the project?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: From the point of view of the taxpayer and the State's investment - I am not saying it is a bad idea, I am just trying to flesh out whether it is a good idea or not for €70 million - have there been projections around income? The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform has not seen it. This is somewhere in the OPW at the moment or in its parent...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) Brian Stanley: They have the business case?