Results 341-360 of 1,036,142 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:James O'Connor) 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) James O'Connor: It was Labour and Fine Gael.
- 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) James O'Connor: I thank the Chairperson. I welcome the OPW and other officials. It will be probably be no surprise to them I am raising the Midleton flood relief scheme and other projects under the OPW's remit. I will draw on something from a 2014 press release by Séamus Whelan to set my argument in motion here. A response the OPW gave to Cork county councillors in the East Cork Municipal District...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: Mr. Conlon has not visited yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: Was Mr. Conlon working in the OPW before that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: Okay. We will let him off on that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: Before we go there, we need a little more detail. How can the OPW justify the fact that nine and a half years after the work got under way, a sod had not even been turned on the project? We need to know the reason. I am genuinely not trying to trip the OPW up. I just cannot understand how those comments could have been made to public representatives at municipal district level in 2014 but...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: A decade.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: With all due respect, Mr. Casey referred to the needs and aspirations of the local community but we have been waiting for a decade for a sod to be turned. The consequences of that are now evident from what happened during Storm Babette. It was not the first time Midleton flooded but it was far and away the worst flooding incident that has ever taken place there. I now fear we are going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: I asked about the Arterial Drainage Act. I imagine the Department of public expenditure is in the OPW's ear saying, from a penny-pinching point of view, that it cannot do this and that the OPW should ram the bill on to Cork County Council. Does Mr. Casey accept, given the extraordinarily high cost of this project, that that would be a crippling amount of money to expect a local authority to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: In terms of the delivery, will the OPW foot the bill or will it pass it on to Cork County Council? That is the question I asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) James O'Connor: Okay.
- 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.