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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I am glad to hear that the Minister will be raising it and trying to push it through with the European element of it. Was it a gap in the Paris Agreement that military emissions were not accounted for, considering the huge amount of emissions derived from military activities and in particular from countries such as the US and Israel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. This is my final question. The governance of funds is an issue that came up on the back of last year's COP where there were welcome developments and commitments. We can talk about where they come from and whether they are in the form of a grant or loan, but has the architecture been developed for the overall governance, distribution and monitoring of how they are...

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...