Results 381-400 of 1,038,520 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:John Brady) 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) John Brady: That is with probably several million in expenditure. That is extraordinary in anyone's estimation. I move to site identification, the whole process around that and the public consultation piece, or lack thereof, around identifying the site. How was the site identified in the first instance? What involvement did the OPW have in that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay, and what about public consultation around that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Possibly because it is a public space and would be handed over to a private entity to operate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I want to ask about the whole arbitration process and the terms of reference. Can they be made available to this committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: The legal advice around the arbitration process.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Can those be made available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Revert to us on that. Why were there two separate arbitration processes?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. Are those arbitration processes now fully exhausted?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. Are the findings of those processes at the conclusion, whenever it is, binding of it? Will they will lock the OPW into going ahead with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: The power of a High Court order.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. What are the consequences of not honouring that? Has that been looked at? What is the exposure of not honouring the arbitration?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: I have to state I am not asking Mr. Conlon not to. It is subject to the High Court, but I am sure that has been looked at. What exposure to the State is there if it does not honour this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay.
- 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 thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: The officials said the final bill is not in for the legal cases and the arbitration. There are two separate arbitrations there. Have we any costing at this stage from that process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: Okay. I will try to come back in, but this entire process, which has left the State at serious exposure, lacks transparency and due process. I think it is being driven by some connected people without any proper process or procedure and there are a lot of procedures for a lot of Departments about funding streams being made available when other science projects have been essentially left to...
- 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 thank the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024) John Brady: -----and not been given access to any State funding. They have been told there is no specific funding headings there for it, yet money was made available for this to the tune of in excess of €5 million from different Departments.