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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will take a final question from Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I am aware of that, but we are running over time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy was late arriving. I ask him to pose his final question immediately or else I will take no further contributions from him.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: No, the Deputy is treated in the same way. I tend to treat everyone equally and badly.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Does Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív wish to continue?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for assisting the select sub-committee in its consideration of the Revised Estimate for the OPW. For the information of members, the meeting of the joint committee will take place in approximately 15 minutes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the following Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2014: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised).

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We are dealing with the full allocation today. The Houses will vote on the Estimates, not the sub-committee.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We are considering the total allocation.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Finance Bill determines expenditure for the forthcoming year. Thereafter, each Department gives an Estimate under specific headings of the expected expenditure in particular areas. These moneys cannot be spent without sanction from the Oireachtas. The Estimates may be revised later in the year and, again, must be voted through by the Oireachtas. What we are doing is setting up the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: That is correct.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: To clarify, because the budget took place earlier in the year, there is a certain amount of adjustment to be done to accommodate the Estimates process into the future. In the case of all the other line Departments which present to the sub-committee, everything was dealt with before Christmas. The delay in dealing with these Votes is simply a question of sequencing.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I remind the Deputy that we are under pressures of time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We will move on to programme B - estate portfolio management. I will take the subheads as follows: B.1 and B.2 - administration, pay and non-pay, respectively; B.3 - President's household staff; B.4 - grants for certain refurbishment works; B.5 - purchase of sites and buildings; B.6 - new works, alternations and additions; B.7 - property maintenance and supplies; B.8 - rents, etc.; B.9 -...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: There is one in my constituency, at Elizabeth Fort, which was recently handed over to Cork City Council. It is an excellent example of how the buildings will be used in the future. It will become a major feature.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Under the energy heading and the maintenance programme, what retrofitting or energy reduction programme is in place to get the OPW more in line on the better energy ratings of public buildings? What is the plan this year in that regard?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will allow Deputy Ó Cuív to contribute briefly before we move to the next session because we have a timetable for the meeting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: We have had enough of this now and I must move on to the next heading.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Ó Cuív, you are finished.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: A key aspect of that memorandum of understanding is not just that major new or remedial works are done, but that part of that remedial work has a clause in it that there is ongoing monitoring and maintenance of the thing itself. As we discovered, in Douglas two years ago a particular type of sluice gate was installed but was not monitored, so when it got jammed it flooded the whole village....