asked the Minister for Finance (a) the total cost of improvement works at Leinster House; (b) the cost of the lifts; (c) where the lifts were purchased; and (d) if his Department are satisfied with the lifts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Leinster House Improvement Works.
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(a) The total cost of the improvement works at Leinster House is approximately £772,000. (b) The cost of the supply and installation of the lifts was £16,256. (c) The lifts were made and supplied by the Otis Elevator Company Ltd. (d) I am advised that there are no grounds on which complaints could be raised about the mechanical operation of the lifts.
Will the Parliamentary Secretary not admit that the lifts are far too slow? Was he ever in Hawkins House?
At certain times the capacity of the two lifts in the six-storey block is inadequate, but that is on very rare occasions only. Mechanically they are operating all right.
Deputies have to wait from three to five minutes to get a lift. They are very slow. They would not be accepted anywhere else in the city.
No civil servant would accept them.
They are much better than the lifts in University College, Dublin, at Belfield.