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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) Jonathan O'Brien: I read some of the reports yesterday about Miesian Plaza and could not believe what I was reading, particularly about the business case that was required under the public spending code. Would Mr. Buckley not agree that there were some major omissions in that?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: There is not being followed properly and there is making a complete hames of it. There is no evidence of a detailed consideration of other options and no cost-effectiveness analysis. No economic appraisal was carried out. There was no consideration of the lease, buy or build options. There is no evidence that the full costs of leasing Miesian Plaza were identified and evaluated,...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: What alternatives were considered? I know the Comptroller and Auditor General identifies two alternatives.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Were only two options considered or were there more that the Comptroller and Auditor General is not aware of?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Was the OPW board made aware of those other options?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: That is confirmed. The board was made aware. Were they included in the documentation sent to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform prior to the lease being signed? Was the Department aware of the other options that were considered?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: I would appreciate that. I want to know whether documentation was given to the Department. I presume that documentation on the other options that were considered was given to the board of the OPW and it was not simply a question of a discussion having taken place. I assume that a detailed, written report on why the alternatives were not runners was presented to the board.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, but apart from the discussions, is there a written, detailed report outlining the other options that were examined and the reasons they were not considered appropriate?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: That is fine.
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: That is in relation 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) Jonathan O'Brien: That is in relation to Miesian Plaza, but what about the other options that were considered?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: I am very glad he visited and I am very glad that there were discussions about it, but I am asking if documentation was given to the OPW board relating to the other options that were looked at, with a business case outlined for not taking up those options. Is there any written documentation supporting that? What documentation was submitted to the Department? Surely there was more than a...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, because without documentation, I cannot do my job. If Mr. Buckley could get that documentation for the committee, I am sure one of my colleagues will follow up on it before I get to come back in again. The next area I want to look at relates to the identification by the Comptroller and Auditor General of at least one other case concerning leases. We know that in relation to Miesian...
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Is that definite?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: On the Miesian Plaza case and the €344,000, the Comptroller and Auditor General's report says that there are ongoing discussions with the landlord to try to rectify the situation. Will Mr. Buckley provide an update on those discussions and to outline the progress made?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: When does the OPW hope to reach a conclusion, because this is costing us money at the moment?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Is there a possibility that it may not be resolved?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, but it was the OPW's mistake in the first place, was it not?
- 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) Jonathan O'Brien: It was the OPW's mistake in the first place. Is that 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) Jonathan O'Brien: As a result, we are now paying €344,000 more than we should be paying.