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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was one of the areas where there is a glaring waste of money when the paving was half the cost of the structure above it. I ask Ms Collier to bear with me. We then get to the groundworks. What did the groundworks entail?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That was approximately €10,000.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: On site, it would appear that some of the groundworks we have seen carried out, are connected for EV chargers that are immediately adjoining it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Did the groundworks connect them to those EV chargers?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Looking at the works, several trenches connect the EV charger points with the bike shelter.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, the EV chargers is a separate project.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How much was that project?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Who owns those EV chargers?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Are they owned by the OPW or by the company?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is the charging that happens in the bike shelter connected somehow to the EV chargers?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: They are separate companies - separate supplies.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Are they separate entities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I am still grappling with the €50,000 for groundworks, which is somehow a separate project from the €112,000. It is remarkable that a project that we thought was €350,000 has an adjoining project of €120,000. The real problem here is that people expect that when something happens in this building, we have some line of sight and supervision, and we know in some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: That is the problem. The public believe that we run this building. Whether we do or do not, the public believe that we run this building. The idea that money can be spent in such an outlandish way without any elected Member of this House knowing about it is a clear failure of the process. The fact that there is no audit of the requests in a formalised process is a clear lack of process...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Unfortunately, we are closing the door after the horse has bolted on this.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, requests to improve the building and so on come from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is there any process for auditing whether requests are reasonable or unreasonable?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The question was – and I imagine this applies to all buildings in which the OPW has people who occupy – does the OPW have a protocol for auditing requests?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is there a formal process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore there is no formal process?