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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Tenders (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: How many guidance notes or oversight documents in respect of abnormally low contract tenders have been published by the Minister or his predecessor since 2011?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Tenders (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: In fairness, I know the law. It is contained in SI 284/2016, which deals with abnormally low contracts, but that is not the question I asked. Rather, I asked whether any guidance notes on the matter had been issued by the Department since 2011. While we are on the subject of abnormally low contracts and how they are meant to be addressed by the contracting authority, will the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Cost (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost of public private partnerships through unitary payments; and the reason total unitary payments are greater than the contractual value of projects. [10633/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Construction Contracts Committee (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role of the Government Contracts Committee for Construction in derogations from standard forms of public contracts; the person or body that is ultimately responsible for approving the public contract used by contracting authorities for capital projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10632/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships Data (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of procurement officials within the NTMA or across Departments charged with managing and overseeing public private partnership contracts; the average annual cost of salaries in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10634/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Staff (5 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 475. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that taxi drivers may not continue contract work with Bus Éireann once they reach 70 years of age despite a continuing demand for drivers; the background to this policy; and if taxi drivers who wish to carry on such contract work can be allowed to do so. [10642/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We should make that standard practice from now on. I acknowledge we got the valuation report for that building but there are a number of other items that we requested from the ETB that have not been forthcoming. We need to follow up on those in the same letter. There were three other things. The first was about block E of the Civic Centre in Bray. There was a list of all properties that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It says we are looking for a note about the rent-free period for the Bray Civic Centre.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am actually looking for everything.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, everything that relates to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think it should also be noted that we do not know when the Government contracts committee for construction, GCCC, signed off on it, but we know that Mr. Quinn was appointed in July 2013. While the GCCC signs off and gives the derogation, that does not give an indication or direction on the negotiations that take place beyond that. That is down to the contracting authority, which I presume...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We might not all be here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I was thinking of the officials more than us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have questions about the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme for Ms Maguire and Mr. Murray. The documentation given to us indicates that 24,984 inspections were either carried out or arranged last year. What is meant by the term "arranged"? Have the inspections not yet taken place or has a date of inspection been set?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does that happen in all cases? Yes, it does. As many as 24,984 inspections were carried out. How many failed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: As many as 2,009 inspections were carried out by Mr. Murray's local authority. From his knowledge of the area, does he know how many failed inspections there were?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The problem with the HAP scheme is that sometimes the tenants are already in a unit when an inspection takes place.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: What happens when a tenant enters a property under the HAP scheme which fails the inspection when it subsequently takes place? What happens in such a scenario?