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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: However, there are none at the top. Sometimes, even if you have the experience but you do not specifically have the expertise, you might not know what question to ask-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: -----because you are trusting, like the OPW trusts the person who wins the contract to get the best possible price and operate to the highest standards and governance. Mr. Conlon is assuming that the QS further down the trough is doing the best possible job. That is the practice that leads us into trouble. One of the big problems is this. Mr. Conlon said earlier when someone asked about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Did he reduce the rent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Did he reduce the rent? It is a straight question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, that is it. He did not reduce it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: What? Did he take you to lunch once a quarter and wheel out the shadow of a truce because of the €10 million in taxpayers' money he is getting that he did not deserve because we mismeasured the building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: In 30 years' time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: For how much will that account?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: How much further?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: What is it to the nearest half a million euro?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: What is the amount to the nearest million euro?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Please do. These are the things that need to be known by the public. The reason I am bringing this up is that just as the OPW wants to treat people with the respect they deserve, provide dignity at work and so on, we want to treat the taxpayers with the respect they deserve. When I asked Mr. Conlon's predecessor whether a disciplinary process was afoot because of that absolutely maximum...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: For anything up to €1 million, the witnesses do not even know about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: The witnesses said that is the case since yesterday. Up to yesterday, people were spending €999,000 willy-nilly without the OPW's approval. Is that so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Does Mr. Conlon expect committee members, Oireachtas Members and the public to believe that the steering group he outlined in his review, which exists between the Dublin conservation unit within the OPW and the facilities management unit in here, never discussed the cost of €350,000-plus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Presumably, there is one of these monthly meetings every month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: The facilities management team attends meetings of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. I am a former member of this committee, the Committee of Public Accounts and the commission. I know about some of the things that go on. I find it absolutely ridiculous in the extreme that somebody with the professionalism and experience of the Clerk of the Dáil would not even ask how much this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I find it difficult to believe, not to understand. It is difficult to believe. Sadly, because of what Mr. Conlon said, because of our practice of covering everybody's ass or, to put it another way, give people the dignity and respect they want, provided they are on this side of the table, for the people on that side of the table, that is, the people ponying up the cash, it seems we have no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: This is my last question. Who decided that? The rain is going to pelt in from the side. If it had been turned around, there might have been some shelter for the six or seven bikes that are in it today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Would they? I must say that no lessons have been learned in the OPW. None whatsoever. Yes, the office does great work. I was on Skellig Michael over the summer. By God, the witnesses would do well to go down and learn a little bit from the monks.