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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: How is that happening at present in lockdown?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: It is a desktop exercise at present. There are no inspections.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: The Department is not asking anybody to come in for extra medical appointments or reviews.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Mr. McKeon listed out all the different areas, quite helpfully. Many of our schemes are means tested or relate to specific things, but child benefit is a universal benefit. When the Department carries out reviews, to what do they relate? Is it about the residency of the child or how does it operate?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to receive the report from the steering group on transport and mobility challenges in the Phoenix Park; when a public consultation is expected on the plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36034/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the ERSI report on the review of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36083/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (12 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the level of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan limit on single-income households in urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36085/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for their presence today. I want to return to flooding and our flood relief efforts. I have some questions on how we progress those projects and the contracts involved. In its climate adaptation strategy, the OPW endorsed the IPCC projections on the 1 m sea level rise by 2100. What life span is projected for the projects we are planning and are under construction...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Projects are designed to a 1 m sea rise.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Does the OPW conduct a cost-benefit analysis between building that now and building that later?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Let us not go down that road today.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I am operating on the assumption that the OPW does rigorous cost-benefit analysis on the works before these proceed. Are there any schemes that the OPW has delivered that in retrospect would not been delivered, considering the cost overruns and the cost estimate forecast and whether the cost estimate forecast was accurate with respect to the final cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: How is OPW tracking the expenditure on professional services contracts? If any of these have exceeded the 150% of the tender sum for the current stage of the project, would that not require retendering of the contract under the current procurement guidelines?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I appreciate whatever Mr. Sydenham would like to comment on. This was a particular question on the consultancy costs, both for the consultants directly involved in the project but also for the quantity surveyors providing an independent oversight.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry but I am about to be cut off because of my time. Have any of the current consultants or specialists involved in tendering services exceeded the 150% tender sum at any stage of the project?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 29. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 36. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of renting office space, including for public bodies, from a company (details supplied) in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [35621/20]