Results 421-440 of 1,160,033 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Michael McNamara OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Dessie Ellis OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Róisín Shortall OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Michael Moynihan OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Leo Varadkar OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Ossian Smyth OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Eamon Ryan OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Cathal Berry OR speaker:Thomas Byrne OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Michael Creed OR speaker:Alan Dillon) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: The principal officer is the most senior grade in that team.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: There are 21 people. Is there a technical staff there too, as well as administrative staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Is there any formal process within that team which evaluates requests that come in from people who occupy the OPW’s buildings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Dunsink Observatory is one of the OPW’s properties. If Dunsink Observatory and DIAS, which I know well, asked for a gold-plated train to bring it to the city centre I am sure the OPW would reject that, right? What are the criteria by which the OPW assesses requests?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I agree, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Has the OPW provided bike-parking facilities in other office buildings for other Departments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Then comes the opportunity to spec it. There is approximately €120,000 for steelwork and glass; around €50,000 for groundworks; and around €40,000 for the granite paving. Then there are two figures for preliminaries and day works. As Deputy Murphy said, I can somewhat justify that the materials in the glass and the steel could come to that figure but I have a real...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Let us take the OPW's estimate of €70 million, bearing in mind how inaccurate some estimates have proven to be within the OPW recently in developing much smaller developments. Does it not cause Mr. Conlon a great degree of concern that the OPW is proposing to spend €70 million, at a minimum, on a national children's science centre in the middle of Dublin, a very busy city,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: It is not a question of it feeling threatened. I am suggesting it should become the national children's science centre, bearing in mind it is already there and is visited by up to 250,000 children every year. With an investment of a fraction of the €70 million of taxpayers' money we are proposing to spend, which I still think is a very conservative estimate, it could and should...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: The potential of other facilities.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Has anyone from the OPW ever visited Explorium to see the facilities there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Who was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Did the chairman and his officials publish any internal documents, report or correspondence engaging with other colleagues on the pros and cons of such a development?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: I get the sense Mr. Conlon is not happy to find himself in this particular position.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: It is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being here on a day the Committee of Public Accounts does not normally sit. This speaks to the importance of why we are here. This committee supervises our audits and the billions of euro that is spent. The idea that an expenditure of €336,000 would draw our attention speaks to the point as regards this issue, namely, that many people cannot get their heads...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Has there been a cost-benefit analysis carried out on the development of the project?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Bearing in mind that many of us are involved with communities across the country which have been subjected to serious flooding in the last couple of decades. When we approach the OPW as an entity to begin working with them and developing flood relief projects, these projects quite rightly are subjected to a rigorous and robust cost-benefit analysis process. I am at a loss to understand why...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: The OPW does not have that right now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: The OPW was asked to provide a note on the failure to disclose the legally binding commitment in the appropriation accounts for 2022. Its response at the time was that the OPW was liaising with the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General on this issue in the context of finalising the 2023 appropriation accounts. Why is that commitment still not included in that 2023 appropriation account?