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

Pearse Doherty: Who is the contractor?

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

Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group?

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

Pearse Doherty: Sensori Group is well known in these Houses for other reasons. The owner of that company at the time of the tender was a political donor to the Minister in this Department and that became a subject of controversy earlier. These contracts and how they are operated are supposed to be for routine maintenance services and all the rest. Is it not the case that the Comptroller and Auditor...

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

Pearse Doherty: That is what we expect from those contracts and it makes sense for that, but we are talking about a €400,000 bike shed or, as the Comptroller and Auditor General said before, the OPW offering contracts of €2.5 million euros under these contracts, which is not allowed.

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

Pearse Doherty: Up to €1 million. Before that it used to be half a million and the OPW were offering contracts of €2.5 million. Is that not correct?

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

Pearse Doherty: It talks about the value of the contract being €3 million per annum whereas the total amount ended up being €40 million, which is €10 million per annum or three times more. If a local group in my constituency in Donegal wants to buy a lawnmower to cut the grass out in front of a housing estate, it has to get three tenders. The OPW does not have to do that at all for a...

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

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this. We are talking about the back of Leinster House and the bike shed. That is an absolute waste of taxpayers' money. Was it the OPW that built the siopa at the front of Leinster House?

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

Pearse Doherty: The glass structure at the front of Leinster House.

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

Pearse Doherty: That was ten years ago, in 2014, is that not the case? On lessons learned, how much did that project overrun by?

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

Pearse Doherty: It overran by €500,000, that is, half a million euro. It cost €1.4 million. It was probably the most expensive shop in Dublin and in Ireland. It is 40 sq. m and has lain idle for years. Where are the lessons learned? There is a commonality here and I could go through numerous other examples. The Garda headquarters were built by the OPW. I raised it here at the committee a...

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

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Conlon says the assessment by the OPW should have placed greater emphasis on the value for money aspects of the project. Was there any emphasis or concern about value for money? When this assessment was carried out, the "simple assessment" as Mr. Conlon describes it, was value for money on the radar at all? Was there a box that had to be ticked? I will give Mr. Conlon an example. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: In two weeks' time, we will mark the two-year anniversary of the Creeslough tragedy. It was a day when time stopped for the people of that community. The explosion took the lives of ten innocent people. Families were left torn apart and desperate for answers. Two years on, the families still do not have those answers and feel forgotten about. We have a Garda investigation still ongoing,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: As the Minister knows, this payment is nothing to do with the temporary protection directive. This is Irish legislation. We can change, end or amend it. Indeed, we argued that existing Ukrainian residents would be supported but that the policy should not displace homes that should be available to the private rental sector. The Government voted against that in February. This is why we are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We put the amendments down. The Government voted against them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, we put amendments down-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----stating what should happen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not once address my point about the unfairness of what is involved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé ag ardú na ceiste ó thaobh na híocaíochta ón Stát do dhídean ar cíos do mhuintir ón Úcráin. Mar is eol don Aire, chuir Sinn Féin in éadan an síneadh ama don scéim seo ag tús na bliana. Dúirt muid ag an am sin go raibh an scéim ag cur brú ar an earnáil cíosa...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (25 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a proposed additional ASD room in a national school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if her attention was drawn to the impact on the children waiting for a place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37994/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the standard fund threshold by €100,000, €500,000 and €1 million respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37864/24]