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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is a differential rent. Is it like a council house rent?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This is the Estimates process. Can the Minister of State tell us the rent being paid on the seven houses combined? Is that information available to the public?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State provide the committee with the documentation that shows how these houses are rented and how the rents are calculated, please? Is that possible?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Are these the only residential houses that the OPW rents out?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025.
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We will get a chance to talk about some of the projects in Donegal at a later stage. I invited the Minister of State to the county and I look forward to his visit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We are ready to treat you and wine and dine you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As long as the Minister of State takes the chequebook for all the projects, we will be happy. There are a couple of dates we do not want him to come down to us. We have the all-Ireland semi-final coming up and the final as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: All other dates are free. The OPW has been involved in huge controversy pertaining to wasting public money, with the bike shed, the security hut and properties that have been rented and are still vacant. Are there any other issues or concerns around value for money within the OPW that the Minister of State or his officials are aware of and which we in this committee are not aware of at this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The GPO is to be transferred to the OPW. Does the Minister of State know if that transfer has taken place at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Has the transfer to the OPW happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: So, it has not been gone through at the minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We heard from the Taoiseach that the site would be a mixed-use museum comprised of open space for office and commercial. In the Minister of State's understanding, is that space for use as State offices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No private offices.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Have private offices been ruled out completely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Will commercial retail be allowed in the space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am referring to the vacant space in the main GPO building, which all of us know as the iconic building we see as we walk down the street. That is the part being redeveloped. Is the Minister of State saying that commercial retail will not be allowed in that part?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Only where it is on Henry Street at the minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Regarding the buildings that the OPW has under its control on O'Connell Street, Nos. 9 to 15 were either owned or leased by the OPW. Does the Minister of State have any information on them? Were they owned? Yes. Are they still owned?