Results 941-960 of 35,526 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: European Union (26 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that Ireland was subject to an EU infringement procedure regarding the failure to progress a sewerage scheme for the agglomeration of Gweedore, if he can provide an update regarding the EU Commission’s view now of the failure to fully progress the scheme on time; if Ireland is currently subject to any...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider cardiac patients in County Donegal with Non-STEMI being given the option of treatment in Altnagelvin Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38317/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will follow up on that. When Mr. Conlon furnished that report to the Minister, did he do it in a meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Has he accepted the report, or has he suggested that additional work is carried out on the back of what he has read?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is it. Does Mr. Conlon accept that at a cost of €336,000, the bike shed was a waste of taxpayers' money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Conlon. Does he accept that a cost of €336,000 to the taxpayer for this bike shed was a waste of taxpayers' money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Given that it did not achieve value for money, is it a waste? Mr. Conlon is the Accounting Officer for this agency. He is accountable. Was taxpayers' money wasted, in his view?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: If Mr. Conlon were alerted to the cost of this bike shed at €336,000, would he have continued with the project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Would he have continued with the project, given everything he knows now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Exactly, and I am giving Mr. Conlon the benefit of hindsight. I want to know if lessons are being learned. Would he have continued with the project, or would he have stopped this project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission is important in this, but the OPW is the most important party. It spent the money, designed the bike shed, issued the contract and decided not to go to tender. It is the OPW that signed off on this and handed out taxpayers' money. Because Mr. Conlon has now reviewed all of this process and talked to the principal parties, I would like to know,...