Results 361-380 of 1,167,595 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Áine Brady OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Aindrias Moynihan OR speaker:Leo Varadkar OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh22 OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:Michael Collins OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Áine Brady88 OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh12 OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh27 OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh19 OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh08 OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh04 OR speaker:Áine Brady72 OR speaker:Michael Creed OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh05 OR speaker:Thomas Gould OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh26 OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue)

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: By "near", does Ms Collier mean on the campus near the main building or off the campus, in the public domain?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Was there a subsequent request for another bike shelter to be built before this one was constructed?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: A much-lower-cost project, I would hope, would involve the existing bike shelters beside the security hut. I will get to the other security hut in a second. At the security hut here in Leinster House, there are freestanding bike stands. Was any consideration given to expanding this site and simply attaching a roof to the existing security hut, maybe at a fraction of the cost?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: On the Merrion Square side.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is in a great location for those in the National Gallery of Ireland visitor area. These visitors are getting great photographs of the shelter. With regard to the location chosen, I made inquiries in the Houses of the Oireachtas because we were not aware of what the excavation works entailed and how long they were going on. It materialised that there was a huge amount of time between...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome Mr. Conlon and all the other witnesses. Turning to the bike shelter for a few minutes, I do not know if Mr. Conlon saw anybody taking photographs with it on his way in. I say that in jest but I say it with a tinge of seriousness because I often see people, through the National Gallery fence, getting selfies with the bike shelter. That shows how serious the cost overruns on this...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I agree with Mr. Conlon on that. The OPW should never have been doing this but that does not save the taxpayers’ money.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: We have the Land Development Agency Where was it in all of this?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Was there any shareholding in the five of them?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Fitzsimons might have information on that. Was one of the contractors a subsidiary of the main contractor?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Would that be normal?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I want to get into the timelines here. The cost comes to an average of between €130,000 and €160,000 per unit. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: When it comes to the overall cost, will Mr. Conlon explain how in the name of God did they get to what is now the final figure?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I know, it is sites.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I saw the reports. If the average was coming in at €145,000 and the cost is coming in at-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: -----€442,0000, that means it is €297,000 for site works per unit. That is absolutely beyond stupid.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: The differential is €297,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Significant.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: How can we go to the public on this matter? For once, I am not blaming the OPW. The fact that the OPW was doing this was wrong. I have gone through all of the replies to my parliamentary questions - I submitted a pile of them on this - and the timelines put out in October 2022 involved a lead-in time of ten weeks for the first phase of 250 units. That is what it said. Did that happen?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Of course it did not happen. I know it did not happen. I am just confirming it. I asked the Department of children, which had responsibility in this regard. I then asked the Department of public expenditure the same thing at the end of October. It stated that the initial 250 would be installed during January and February 2023. Did that happen?