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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has four minutes left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: To follow up on one point, who spotted that the wrong measure was being used? The Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: I am looking at paragraph 6.21 of this report on page 67 and it reads as follows:In finalising the lease, the issue of the different measurement bases was considered. When reviewing the lease, the Chief State Solicitor's Office (CSSO) requested OPW to confirm with its in-house valuer whether IPMS was the appropriate standard for measurement in this case. After all of this, the Comptroller...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: We are in a situation where the OPW are the people looking after the State's assets, leases and property and nobody in the organisation spotted this. It took the legal people who-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Just let me finish.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The witnesses were made aware of this internally. The OPW apparently then ignored that advice and then the Chief State Solicitor's Office said there was an issue. How many people have to tell the witnesses there is a problem before they accept it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: This was after the lease was signed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The Chief State Solicitor's Office requested that the OPW check it out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: At what stage was that? Was that before the lease was signed or later on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The lease had been signed already.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Mr. Buckley is now telling us that this issue was well known for almost 12 months before the contract was signed. This issue was there from August 2016 and when was the lease signed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: This was well known for six months.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: That was obvious. The OPW should have changed the amount of square metres involved. The concept of saying the implications of changing the square metres of what was being rented was not realised is obvious.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: We are only interested in this one point because it appears to me that even though the OPW was aware of it, it carried on regardless and it took the CSSO really querying it to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: These are people who are not property experts. They are the OPW's professional legal advisers and the Comptroller and Auditor General probably calculated the extra cost. In fact I do not know who calculated it. When was it calculated and by whom?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Why did the OPW not calculate it when it became aware of the situation? The onus should be on the OPW to calculate the correct-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General said that he calculated the potential extra cost to the Exchequer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: That is an independent office. The OPW cannot rely on the Comptroller and Auditor General to do the OPW's work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: Mr. Buckley just said that these standards were in operation from February 2016. That was two years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018) Seán Fleming: We do not believe it, Mr. Buckley can take it as a "not". Go on.