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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: The witness might have just been in his post, and perhaps the Chairman was not in his post. I know I have a very adversarial way of asking questions, but it looks a bit like negotiating class 101.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Yes, TWM is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: I am not questioning its expertise. They are all former DTZ people, and I know of them, but they are only as good as the brief they get.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: It seems that its brief was to come back with the best terms it could get on one property. I would prefer if it was sent to three different properties, but it seems that the property had been selected internally. We can question the absence of certain expertise at the time, but the brief seems to have been to go and do a deal on that particular property. We were never going to have the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Not necessarily. I can provide some comparisons with some large-scale high profile buildings in the city which managed to provide rents that, when the incentives absent from this scheme are taken into consideration, cost well below €50 per square foot. They have achieved €46, €48 and €47.50 per square foot, with break clauses.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: We are talking about shell and core. I have been in Miesian Plaza since, and there is no question but that the fit-out is superb.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: It is not a case of now. I am thinking of all of the deals done and people in situ.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that it is not the case; it is a case of we will never know because we only sent the OPW managing team to negotiate on one property.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: I am not particularly renowned or anything; I just know some of the basics.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: We are almost in 2019.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Mr. Bourke wanted some examples. I will give him a few. One is 1GQ on George's Quay in Dublin 2. The cost is €48 per square foot and includes car parking spaces. There is a break clause and one year's free rent. There is another 50,000 sq. ft unit at 1GQ and the cost includes car parking spaces. It is a 20-year lease, with a break clause after 15 years. There is 12 months' free...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: We are not going to solve it now. The bottom line is that it was poor practice not to go in. Whether the OPW decided off the record, privately and internally that the Central Bank or George's Quay, for example, was not appropriate, in its brief TWM ought to have listed the five options it was looking to have. We are all human and TWM is only as good as the target set for it. What I am...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: It was the client Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Does it have plenipotentiary status? Is it its call to say to the commissioners, "We want 100,000 sq. ft or 50,000 sq. ft and we want it on Baggot Street"? Is the OPW in a position to state, "Hold on one second, lads. How much space do you need based on 12 sq. ft per person?" On average, we are at a figure of about 16 sq. ft?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: In Miesian Plaza, but the figure for the Civil Service nationally is higher, is it not? We are at a figure of about 25 sq. ft or something like it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: But it is still not where we want to get to, that is, 12 sq. ft?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: In the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: That is great. We will have to get the Comptroller and Auditor General bigger offices for the value his office is achieving, as I suggested.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Okay, but if someone comes to the OPW and says, "Hawkins House is being closed and we want 120,000 sq. ft." Is the OPW entitled to state, "Hold on a second. How many people do you have? Give us your general requirements"? Is it entitled to state, "To be honest, we have an option here for you and it will do you"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Marc MacSharry: Because of availability and the OPW might sometimes have property.