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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: That is clear from the conversation we are having. I am not raising any questions in that regard. However, the answer Deputy Kevin Humphreys received did not contain the level of detail I would like to have seen. It was not clear, for example, whether time was being clocked on the project or if there was a way of saying that an architect was at a desk doing work for a specific period of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I am about to conclude, Chairman. I am asking about the current state of play in regard to this particular project. It is important to see where we are at. The oral hearings concluded in November 2013. Did that mark the end of the OPW's involvement in the project or is there more work to come?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Would any further work on this project by the OPW require a direction from Government?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Are any further bills expected relating to the external service providers who were engaged on the project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When the OPW engages the expertise of external services, are other Departments generally involved in that process? In the case of this specific project, was any other State entity involved or was the OPW alone engaged in the planning and design?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Am I right in saying that the OPW will not have a role during the construction phase?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The question of any further involvement will depend on a direction from Government.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the number of people involved on the OPW side. The planning applications list a total of five architects on the design team, a principal architect and three other people involved in the report done on the water.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: When plans are submitted the bottom of each page shows a principal architect - which is the State architect in this instance - and a list of the design team. Is this a list of the design team or are they just people who have signed off on the plans?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I will return to that point. Ms McGrath did that work for Deputy Kevin Humphreys as he asked a number of questions previously. If I may deal briefly with the external services. Ground investigations work cost €8,066. The estimate for specialist planning advice was €5,000 as of October 2013. Is a final figure available yet?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: They do the work for the OPW.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: Is this the first time the OPW has engaged external services or is it a common practice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On the JFK project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a regular practice of the OPW that such external client services are engaged for projects where the OPW is doing the design for a private entity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The final bill for external services is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: I refer to the question submitted by Deputy Kevin Humphreys. He was given a reply stating one person for 58 weeks. I am trying to assess the monetary cost to the OPW. The reply to Deputy Humphrey's parliamentary question refers to procedures being in place to monitor and manage the resource input by professional services in the OPW, which includes the recording of the grade and contributed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: On site somewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: That does not apply in this case under discussion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The reply to Deputy Humphreys's question states that where requirements arise to support initiatives or provide services outside of the strict parameters of a project time line, as occurred in this instance, the recording of the full extent of such resource inputs is not assiduously observed. I want to break down that sentence in order to understand it properly. In this instance, it was a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Eoghan Murphy: The reference to "support initiative or provide services outside of the strict parameters of a project time line". What does that mean?