Results 61-80 of 11,743 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: That is fine. I turn to Deputy McAuliffe's point about the bike shed. Like everyone else, I echo that is something that comes up routinely. In my area it comes up in the context of wasting that amount of money on a bike shed while the ball was dropped so badly on something of such importance as Castletown House. I have raised this on the past two occasions the OPW has been in. Is it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: I understand that but there is no point in building a white elephant or building something for tens of millions of euro and then to discover that the people who are insisting that this be built do not have the wherewithal to put that kind of money into fitting it out. I would have thought that kind of clarity, the cost and the longevity of running it, given that this is a charity, would have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can the committee see that legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Would the arbitrator have been oblivious to the economic situation the State was in? We were under supervision by the troika and every piece of spending was being monitored. Surely, that is an argument which would have been advanced. I cannot figure this out at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: As was outlined earlier, it is not the same thing to what it started out as being where the State was not going to cover the cost but it was going to be built as part of a development and was very much a Celtic tiger proposal. It is now double the size that it was originally intended to be. As this charity is making demands, the OPW is acceding to those demands and I cannot understand how...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: The OPW is then telling us that it is legally on the hook-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: -----because the arbitrator has more or less indicated that it has to be built and that there is planning permission. The OPW is saying it has to be built but it is also saying that it has to do a proper business case. I would have thought that would have been done before arbitration. The OPW has to do a proper value-for-money business case. It must then find a sponsoring Department. It...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Conlon think that it should be built?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Deputy Murphy was looking for information on the cost of the planning permission for Hawkins House. Does Mr. Conlan have that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Okay. I hope we will have them before the end of the meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: I have a number of questions. I asked about buying one of these modular homes. Are we talking about a double unit for €145,000? They come in twos. Is that price per each unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: They are very small. Deputy Farrell asked about the engagement the OPW had with the Department on the cost of these. Presumably it was the Department of children. When did the OPW ask the Department about the cost? Was it well in advance? The OPW was given the go ahead after that meeting as well. Who gave that go ahead?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Yes, so some of these cost more than others. Were there particular ones the OPW drew attention to that were very significantly over the amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Conlan give us a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: The site at Backweston is a flat piece of land, is near services and is a larger one. I presumed that kind of one would have been more viable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: It would be useful for us to see that comparison if Mr. Conlan could provide us with the information. Clearly, the Department was more than aware of this and decided to go ahead with it at senior official level. I move to the children's science museum. There has been quite a lot of money spent on that already given the cost of arbitration. There is a second arbitration. Is there a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: I cannot for the life of me understand how the OPW was on the hook for this either. Deputy Kelly drew attention to the notion it should not have been on the hook for the modular homes either. There is no sponsoring Department, yet it is the OPW that is dealing with the arbitration. I cannot for the life of me understand how the OPW would have been advised that in 2013 in the middle of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is it true that the bin truck cannot get in with the size of the roof? Is there an impediment with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Conlon to check that out, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Catherine Murphy: If I wanted to buy one of these modular homes, and I am actually quite familiar with them because Backweston is very near to where I live and the biggest development is there. The modular units are very small. They obviously come in pairs. If I was to buy one of those, without the enabling works and all the rest of it, how much would one of those cost?