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- 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?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McDonald for raising this important issue. I join her in acknowledging what she rightly describes as the very important role student nurses play in our health system, in our hospitals and in our community during their training. She is quite right to make that point. Of course, in their fourth and final year, student nurses are paid, but the Deputy is talking specifically...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. He will remember during Covid there was a huge discussion around student midwives and nurses and the work that was being done. It was said at that point that the work was not being adequately recognised and compensated. I just think it is really problematic that we are back in a space where young students of nursing and midwifery feel again that they are not being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: So I hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Young people and students working within the healthcare system are going to watch very carefully to see what we have to say and whether we are prepared to put our money where our mouths are. On this side of the House we certainly are. I will send on details of the individual case to the Minister. I hope the Taoiseach takes the point, which is made in good faith, that it is in all of our...
- 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...
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
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