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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Is there anything within that individual's job spec or contract that indicates this person has a responsibility to ensure value for money for the taxpayer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I want to know the actual contract. There has to be a contractual responsibility by each individual in those scenarios to protect taxpayers' money. Is there anything in their job spec or contract to protect taxpayers' money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I understand that but we need individuals to be personally responsible for the work they deliver. If people do not fulfil their contracts, then there is a personal responsibility and a form of discipline at some level, up to and including, necessarily, some people losing their jobs on certain occasions. If there is no cost for individuals in terms of waste of taxpayers' money, there will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: On my next question, it seems as though the company that was contracted for this, Sensori, outsourced the job and tendered externally for four suppliers. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: In other words, we outsourced the tendering of the taxpayers' money for this. Not only was our own oversight of potential waste internally very poor in this situation, but we actually gave it to someone else to tender and for taxpayers' money to be spent in this scenario.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Does Mr. Conlon think it is a good idea to put tendering at arms' length in the future with regard to these costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: How do we know it is done competitively if we are not doing it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Is the quantity surveyor working for Sensori or the OPW?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: For who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Is the surveyor an employee of the OPW then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: So we also outsource the quantity surveyor in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: This is incredible that we are outsourcing oversight to these Government projects in those terms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Everybody would expect that we get a bicycle shed for a reasonable price. That has not happened clearly. So the expectations here are blown out of the water, in fairness, Mr. Conlan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: It is important that the OPW has an internal oversight where people are employed directly in relation to this. Two suppliers were invited to quote for the Wicklow granite paving, for example. That was not tendered by the OPW. It was tendered by an outside company. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: We walked over the area of the granite and I think it is 60 sq. m. From the figures that we see here that works out as €800 per sq. m and yet if you go online you can see Wicklow granite paving for about €200 per sq. m. My point is that we need to have internal checks and balances in relation to external contractors who, in fairness to them, are profit-generating organisations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Can we have the quantity of works as well? When the OPW says that it has spent €121,000 on steel, if we are not given the quantity then how can we work out the exact cost per unit? Again, I feel the information we have been given here is not detailed enough for us to properly analyse it and I do not think that is by accident.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Conlon said he spoke to the Minister before the delivery of these notes to the committee. Which Minister was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: Did Mr. Conlon speak with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, regarding any of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: No Minister signed off on the €1.5 million security hut. What is the size of that building in square metres? It looks like the size of a large mobile home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: We may find that out as well. It has been reported that vehicles, trucks especially, are having difficulty getting in and out of that space due to the size of the building, especially its roof. Has Mr. Conlon heard reports of that?