Results 401-420 of 1,154,649 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:John Dolan OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Barry Cowen OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Pippa Hackett OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh27 OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh16 OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Thomas Gould) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Are they owned by the OPW or by the company?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: I will briefly return to the bike shelter and I echo my colleagues' comments. The Leas-Chathaoirleach and I have been around this committee the longest. The biggest issue we have ever dealt with is the national children's hospital. As regards commentary among the public, a €2.2 billion project is put in the ha'penny place by a bike shed out at the back of this building when it comes...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is there any process for auditing whether requests are reasonable or unreasonable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Conlon can call it that. That is fine. Let us move to the next point. Who in the Office of Public Works received the request from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that. Who in the OPW received a request from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The question was: who in the OPW received it?
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Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore the Dublin conservation team are the people who received it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: And it would also have been responsible for carrying out the estimate?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: And having overall project management of the project as it developed.