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

James O'Connor: There needs to be accountability on this. It is hard to know where to start. For an agency in charge of 2,500 properties across the State, there is an unmerciful amount of, what we call, blindfolded trust on the OPW's side of the table. This has done inordinate damage to the reputation of our national Parliament and to the public's perception of what the State is spending hard-earned...

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?

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

Alan Kelly: When were the first 250 units finally concluded?

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

Alan Kelly: I am sure the witnesses have it.

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

Alan Kelly: From ten weeks in the third quarter of 2022, it ended up, as I understand it, not just in the middle of 2023 but significantly later than that. There were the other 250 after that. What consequences were there for the contractor? Were there any consequences or was it all just blamed on the issues with sites? In other words, were the units delivered?

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

Alan Kelly: I know all about the Thurles site.

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

Alan Kelly: We can check all of those out. For the benefit of members of the public watching these proceedings, a contractor came in to do work for the OPW. What has probably not been in the public domain is the fact that the contracts averaged out at €145,000 but that the actual cost averaged out at €442,000. This means a cost of €297,000 for site works. That is beyond...

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

Alan Kelly: They should not have been picked.

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

Alan Kelly: So there is nothing we need to be aware of. It is really an opportunity for Mr. Conlon because this is the Committee of Public Accounts. There is nothing-----