Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----because you are trusting, like the OPW trusts the person who wins the contract to get the best possible price and operate to the highest standards and governance. Mr. Conlon is assuming that the QS further down the trough is doing the best possible job. That is the practice that leads us into trouble. One of the big problems is this. Mr. Conlon said earlier when someone asked about the identity of the person who signed off on some aspect that he is very conscious that he wants to treat civil servants with the dignity and respect they deserve at work and that he does not wish to individualise it. I suggest that this is the problem.

By the way did we ever get a reduction in rent from Larry Goodman on the Miesian Plaza building which was mis-measured by the professionals in the OPW?