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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. Lovely.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: On Deputy Mythen's point, if we agree this section now, will the Minister come back to us so that we can put forward amendments on Report Stage? Is that what the Minister is saying?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I appreciate that. Will the Minister look at the issue ahead of Report Stage?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: The Minister can set regulations. Can he say on what he would base them?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will force majeure and the like still count?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am not on this committee, so I thank the Chair and members for allowing me to speak. I was listening from the seats at the back of the room when it was stated that the OPW identified the back way into Leinster House beside Agriculture House – I am familiar with the area – because it would not have to remove any parking spaces, given that it was a wide area across from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: How many parking spaces have been removed from the current site?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is more than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Deputy Boyd Barrett and I are based on that side of Agriculture House and people have to pass through security, including at the gate. Could the committee be forwarded a letter – I am not a member, but I would like to see it – about the grounds on which the decision was made? Obviously, the OPW received a letter from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, which handles that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are probably 110 sq. m or 112 sq. m of granite. Is the part where people walk granite?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are approximately 160 sq. m of macadam. Is each of the elements, including site set-up, set out separately in the procurement document?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Drainage works were included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: According to some media coverage, cheaper quotes were received. Is that correct? I heard media reports of quotes coming in at €30,000, €40,000 or €50,000 less. Were those bids assessed as not supplying the same works?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am trying to establish something. When the OPW puts a project out for tender, it uses a preferred supplier in the south of the city and another in the north. Am I correct in saying that only one can work on a project or can other people who do that type of work-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Did the bike shelter go through eTenders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the witnesses. That is all I wanted to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: If possible, I would like the committee to get that information from the parties involved. Is there a procurement framework document on which suppliers of projects valued at €500,000, €1 million or whatever are put? How does it work?