Results 401-420 of 1,124,084 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:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Richard Bruton6 OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Thomas Byrne OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Thomas Byrne0 OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Michael Lowry OR speaker:Cathal Crowe) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Of course, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I park my car every day on perfectly good tarmac in Leinster Lawn; it does not detract from the building. Who decided that granite paving was essential?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: By the Dublin conservation team.
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, the EV chargers is a separate project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: How much was that project?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Who owns those EV chargers?
- 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.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
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) 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?